The Watchmaker's Will"
His face was pale, his eyes bloodshot, but a terrifying, triumphant smile broke across his face as he looked at her.
"You're late, Anaya," Alistair said, his voice echoing with a strange, multi-tonal resonance that filled the glass structure. He held a massive, glowing master controller device linked directly to the subterranean foundations. "The calibration is at ninety-one percent. The Eastern Node is mine. Hand over the cylinder, or watch me erase the country you fought so hard to return to."