MY CRUEL PROTECTOR
The lights didn't come on, but the server racks began to glow with a soft, pulsing blue light.
"The air," I gasped, as the ventilation fans kicked in with a wheeze.
"You did it," Nevan said, his voice full of a rare, naked awe.
But the Sovereign wasn't just giving us air. It was projecting a message. On the black glass walls of the vault, images began to flicker—thousands of them. Photographs, bank records, confession tapes. The hidden history of the O’Shea and Lane families.
And then, I saw it. A video file labeled Project Chrysalis.