Kyle looked at the screens and felt sick. Millions of names. Millions of numbers.
"We can't free them all right now," he said.
"I know," Yua said. "But we can start."
Elara stepped out of shadow. Her legs were shaky. "What do we do first?"
Yua looked at the screens. Then at the door. "First we make sure more butchers don't find us. Then we figure out how to shut this down."
Kyle nodded. His hands were still black at the edges. He couldn't help it. "Control room probably has a master shutoff. Or alarms. Something."
They split up in the room. Not far. Just enough to check things.
The control room was big. Cold. White walls, white desks, white everything. Screens everywhere. Each screen showed a section of the kalkai chamber. Tube after tube. The monitors beeped in rhythm. Like a heartbeat that wasn't theirs.
Yua went to the main console. She pressed a few buttons. Nothing happened. She pressed harder.
"Locked," she said. "Needs vampire blood or a key."
