Page 411 of Scars of Fate

Then she looked toward the timer in Hawk’s hand.

09:03.

“If we don’t stop Kane⁠—”

“We will.”

“You can’t promise that.”

“No.”

Honesty.

Even now.

“But I can promise I won’t stop.”

The stone storage building appeared through the trees.

Half its roof had collapsed.

Snow covered the broken walls.

Roth crossed the clearing and found the entrance behind an old shelving unit.

A steel hatch lay beneath it.

No electronic lock.

Only a rusted wheel.

He pulled.

It didn’t move.

Adam joined him.

Together, they forced the wheel to turn.

The seal broke.

A dark shaft opened beneath us.

A metal ladder descended into the mountain.

Hawk shone his light down.

“No visible movement.”

Roth went first.

Adam followed.

I looked at Wynn.

“You’re not climbing that ladder.”

“I can climb.”