Waking up to my sin
—the place where the Architects played God.
"To get into the central lab, we need a level-nine biometric handshake," Malakai said, pulling two small, transparent patches from his kit. He pressed one onto his neck and handed the other to me. "These are thermal-mimicry filters. They’ll mask our real signatures, but for the scanners to register a 'Pass,' we have to be synchronized. Heart rate, temperature, proximity. The system is designed to recognize 'The Architect' and his 'Consort' as a single biological unit."