Off Limits
Peter Ambrose stepped into Level Zero.
He hadn't changed his clothes. He still wore the charcoal-gray suit, the white silk tie, the expensive leather oxfords that had never been designed to walk through mud and broken glass. He carried no umbrella, no security detail, and no devices. His hands were empty, his face pale and completely still beneath the flickering halogen light as he closed the door behind him, locking us both inside the dark, rusted tomb of our youth.
He walked toward me, his steps silent against the concrete, his eyes tracking my position with the cold, calculated precision of an optical sensor. He stopped ten feet away, just at the edge of the pale orange circle cast by the