the obsidian proxy
But she also saw two human thermal signatures—unmoving, perfectly still.
“Julian, I have contact. Two individuals inside the Chronos dome. They are stationary, waiting,” Elias whispered into her comms.
“Unidentified,” Julian replied, his voice tense. “They were never logged in the Ledger or the Shadow Bank data. They must be the core engineers—the only people who knew the full code. Be extremely careful, Elias.”
Elias found the only point of entry into the dome—a small, manual airlock. She triggered the override, slipping inside the sterile, chilled environment.