the obsidian proxy
“He’s early. The lure worked—he’s coming for the mandatory update, but he’s moving faster because he knows Julian is exposed in Curaçao.”
Commander DeWitt emerged from the elevator. He was dressed in a simple, cold-weather operational suit, carrying a standard Syndicate briefcase. He moved with the quiet confidence of a man entering his own private sanctuary. He did not look around; he was focused entirely on the vault door.
DeWitt approached the vault, pulling out a small, metallic keycard—the physical key—and inserted it into the reader. He then placed his palm on the biometric scanner.
“I will retrieve the Key from Thorne, and then I will retrieve you, Proxy-917,” DeWitt murmured to himse