Hannah notices.
Her hand slips into mine without warning.
Not romantic.
Instinct.
Like she suddenly needs proof somebody solid exists beside her.
I hold on immediately.
Ahead—
Gabriel freezes.
Then slowly lifts a hand.
Everybody stops.
Light spills faintly beneath another steel door farther down the tunnel.
Fresh light.
Generator-powered.
Not abandoned.
Russ moves beside Gabriel carefully.
“You think this is active?”
Gabriel’s expression darkens.
“I think we found another facility.”
My stomach drops.
Because that means Wu wasn’t evacuating children.
He was relocating them.
The child’s voice comes again.
Closer now.
Crying softly.
“I don’t want the medicine…”
Hannah physically flinches beside me.
Overlap hits immediately.
I feel it happen before she even speaks.
Her fingers tighten painfully around mine.
“No…”
