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But she didn’t love this. One of the two videos she’d seen had been altered. She didn’t want to believe that either agency would do that, but it was entirely plausible that the DART video she’d seen was original and had been leaked and then altered by an independent actor. Someone sympathetic to The Aegis or who had an ax to grind with DART.
Troubled by all the various scenarios, she waved away the holovid. She’d deal with it later. “Tobey, I need to get into the historical archives.”
“Which section?”
“Twenty-first century.”
Nodding, he flicked his fingers over one of the screens. “Topic?”
“The Four Horsemen.”
His fingers flew again, and then a door on the right slid open. “You should have access to almost everything.”
She paused. “Almost?”
He nodded again. “Looks like there’s material related to the Horsemen in the secure vault. You’ll need an Elder’s code to get into it.”
“Okay, thank you.”
“No problem.”
The door slid closed behind her as she walked through the aisles of material gathered during the current century. Most were digital files of pictures and articles, but there were also shelves of books and videos of every press conference given by The Aegis’s media department.
She used the tablet mounted to the research table to scan the entire vault for topics related to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and specifically Regan Matthews and Logan.
Hundreds of files popped up on the screen, including several related to Regan, and one of Logan…that were locked away inside the secure vault.
Dammit.
She quickly scanned the available materials for information related to Regan’s assignment as Thanatos’s Aegis liaison, but there was nothing out of the ordinary. It was all the stuff every Aegi learned. The stuff she’d told Logan.
Well, that was all she could do.
Although…
Nah. She couldn’t. She couldn’t lie to an Elder.
Could she?
She thought about the look on Logan’s face when she’d basically called his parents liars. And the look on Maja’s face when Eva had told the Elder about it. Something was off.
And she’d done worse to get a story.
Before she lost her courage, she used the library’s comms system to send a message to Maja, asking for permission to enter the south vault because it contained files related to the Dome of the Rock. Eva had no idea if that was true or not, but she’d bet Maja wouldn’t question it, given today’s blood-rain event. And sure enough, the Elder shot her a code.
Armed with the code and high on adrenaline, Eva hurried to the vault and activated the code lock. The door popped open with a soft hiss.
Oh, man. She’d give her right arm to spend just twenty-four hours in here. Heck, a couple of hours would be gold. How many secrets were filed away? And why?
She quickly dug through the materials related to Regan, most of which were service records, medical charts, and mission details.
Eva knew little about Logan’s mother beyond the basics given during Aegis history orientation and the bits and pieces she’d picked up here and there. Everyone knew Regan was something known as a Camborian, born to two human Guardians, but her father had been possessed by a demon at the time her mother conceived. The Aegis had put her father down, and her mother had died by suicide after giving birth.
Regan had bounced from Aegis foster home to Aegis foster home as her powerful abilities manifested—spirit-defense abilities that had made her the perfect choice to work with Thanatos, who held power over souls.
But… Eva’s pulse picked up as she read an account by an Elder named Lance, who had been slaughtered by Thanatos a few months later. He wrote that Regan had initially refused the assignment.
A mission to seduce Thanatos and get pregnant with the Horseman’s baby to avert an apocalypse.
