Cael processed.
His eyes on Alex. On Grim. On the corridor around them.
Then he looked at Davan against the wall.
"Do you know what's going to happen when they get here?" he said to Davan.
"Yes." Davan's expression didn't change. "I know."
Cael looked at him for a moment.
Cael didn't say anything more about that.
He turned to Alex.
"Two hundred meters." His voice. "Move."
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Alex turned to the team.
Kira already had the route mapped — her amber eyes with Predator's Sense active, reading the side corridors that Agustín wouldn't have had time to fully close.
"East side corridor," said Kira. "Then the maintenance passage we used to get in. It gives us a hundred‑meter head start if we leave now."
"Let's go," said Alex.
Emily beside him.
Maya with Akari.
Raven with her spectral crow oriented toward the side corridor.
Marcus evaluated.
"Aurum and I will leave through the north." A pause. "I have a route that doesn't cross Agustín's."
Alex looked at him.
