Vows of Graphite and Guilt
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Julian looked down at her, the ghost of a cold, razor-sharp smile touching the corner of his mouth.
"I do not build structures without escape hatches, Clara," he said softly. "Beneath the floor plate of this vault lies the old utility conduit for the city’s defunct steam-tether network. It routes directly to the abandoned subway tunnels beneath Fourth Avenue. We will be three blocks away before they realize the vault has been breached from the inside."
He reached down with his left hand, grasping a heavy iron ring set flush into the concrete floor behind the server cabinets.
But before he could pull, the heavy steel door of the vault behind them began to hiss, the pneumatic lines groaning as