Shining Room 217 Novels & Stories

She hit hard and slid down, groaning. I was enraged, and I couldn't stop being that way for some time now. I shifted further, fur rippling across my chest as I tackled Prime again. We smashed through a set of double doors into a long observation hallway lined with glass windows. On the other side of the glass were tanks. Rows and rows of gestation chambers filled with glowing liquid and growing wolf bodies. Sable caught up, breathing hard. “That’s the incubation wing! We need to get to the control room past it!”

"I told her to step out." "Why?" He loosened his tie and headed for the liquor cabinet. "She was just helping out." I said, keeping my voice steady, "Matthew, do you remember what this secret room means to us?" He stopped for a second, then poured himself some whiskey like it was no big deal. "Sure, I remember. But this is work, Elena. Don't blow it out of proportion. Matthew continued after taking a sip, "She's good with wine. And she's my assistant. It's normal for her to take care of this stuff."

She trailed Varian through the darkening hall, past the elevator banks, toward a heavy steel door she hadn’t noticed before. He punched in a code, turned the wheel, and forced it open. Inside: a narrow chamber of breakers, servers, and humming consoles. The heart of his sanctuary. Every screen flickered with static. Across one, words scrolled in jagged white letters: WE ARE THE ARBITERS. YOUR WALLS BLEED.

he shouted. The lights exploded overhead, a burst of white, then darkness. When the lights returned, the child was gone. And in her place, a full-grown reflection of Evelyn stared back. There wasn't a glitch this time, not a distortion. A perfect mirror of her, except the eyes. The eyes were wrong, black, shining, and alive. Afterlight smiled and said “I’ve been waiting for you.” The containment room door slammed shut behind them at that moment, locking them in with her.

At the top was a single, circular room. There were no windows. The only light came from a massive stone basin in the center of the room, filled with a shimmering, dark liquid that looked like liquid obsidian. Around the room were cages—massive, reinforced steel cages—but they weren't for people. They were too large. "You shouldn't be here, Arielle." I whirled around. A woman stood in the doorway. She was beautiful in a cold, predatory way, with hair as white as bone and eyes a piercing, unkind blue. Soline.

“You think you’re the only one?” “You wound me, Delia,” Gray chuckles. She slaps his arm playfully, letting him know it's time to get serious. He straightens up, as all signs of amusement snap from his face in a split second and holds still while she goes to work on the chain in his hands. She places both of her hands a few inches above the metal and whispers some incantation until a low blue glow can be seen from underneath her palms. When the glow fades she moves her warm copper brown hands and sighs.

"where's the sun room again?" ****

Leo asked, his voice cutting through the doubt. ​Ren tapped a series of commands into his cracked tablet, his face pale in the screen’s glow. "The Summit Building is a 'World of Glass.' Every floor is transparent, monitored by AI-driven retinal scanners. There are no walls to hide behind, no shadows to slip through. It’s designed to be a temple of 'transparency,' but it’s actually a high-frequency kill-box. If we enter as shifters, the glass will vibrate at a frequency that will shatter our bones."

I felt like he was staring at my ass the whole time. We eventually came to a massive room, with whiteboards on every wall. My jaw dropped as they easily had ten times more worked out than I did. I walked along the walls for a couple of minutes taking it all in. “Don’t worry we have some help for you,” Hashem said, clapping his hands. I turned to see someone bring in Dr. Edger and … Dr. Karlsson?! “What the fuck,” I demanded, marching toward him, pointing my finger at his chest.