“HANNAH!”
Steam erupts upward from the lower chamber vents.
Gabriel pales instantly.
“She got hit with vent pressure.”
Wu smiles again from the floor.
I’m going to kill him.
Not maybe.
Not later.
Now.
I grab him by the collar and drag him upward hard enough blood sprays from his wounded legs.
“Tell me how to stop it!”
Wu studies me calmly despite the pain.
“You can’t.”
I slam him into the reactor railing.
Hard.
“You don’t get to decide that anymore!”
For the first time—
Wu finally loses his composure completely.
“Humanity needs control!”
He screams it.
Actually screams.
Years of obsession breaking apart right in front of us.
“Without order people destroy each other!”
Russ watches him coldly.
“No.”
A pause.
“People like you do.”
Below us—
metal suddenly CLANKS violently through the chamber.
Gabriel spins toward the monitor.
