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CHAPTER 10: The First Lock

Author: Myra TUC
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As soon as my palm touched the screen, there was a shift inside the room.

A golden fire broke out about me, and crept along my fingers, crept up my wrist. I had my hand on the screen that was beating as my heart did. But deeper, older, as though some ancient thing were opening its eyes in my blood.

The archive-room flared with that golden pulse, and hummed louder and louder, till even Kieran was repulsed.

Kaia, he said, and his eyes were dark, and fixed upon my hand. What have you just done?

"I… I do not know," I said in a low voice, but something inside me was saying the contrary.

Then silence.

The alarms ceased. The lights ceased their flickering. Everything… froze. Like the time being frozen. The terminal hummed quietly under my hand and then it altered.

LOCK ONE: CODE BEARER ID DISENGAGED RECOGNITION SEQUENCE ACTIVATED

I was gazing at the words. No, I did not move. I couldn’t. I could feel my heart beating and thudding.

Lock one? I murmured. Which lock?

Kieran stepped near and his
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