The freezer corridor exhaled into B-12.
Ty stepped through first because the cold had already chosen him.
It ran along his bones without finding skin to punish. Frost gathered on his ribs, melted blue, and slid away as smoke. Behind him, JJ hugged both arms around herself and looked personally offended by the temperature.
"Hospitals should have elevators with bad music, not adventure doors."
Heissman adjusted his coat collar. "Several hospitals steal money with admirable efficiency, if that helps."
"It somehow makes the door worse, so no."
Yun-Jin entered last with her sword angled low. The freezer light changed the blade's color until it looked almost white. She checked the ceiling, the floor drains, the plastic curtain strips at the far end, and the row of steel drawers set into the left wall.
"No crowd in the corridor yet, only drawers."
Omina touched the frame behind them. Her cuffs gave a low green flicker. "Then the crowd is still being arranged somewhere else."
