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Elyssa didn’t waste aher arcphone atop the touchscreen interface and running Adah its saan the search for secure transport The search time ticked away in the upper corner of the screen, a nerve-wracking re search secure transport…results found Accessing…
"Please work," Elyssa said as the tiainst her chest like lead weights
Success! Copying results to file Please wait
They cheered, high-fiving each other like a bunch of adolescent boys who’d just blown so picked up a ding from the levitator shaft Her eyes ide "The lift is active!"
"How are we going to get out of here?" Stacey said
"Take a picture of the node," Elyssa said, unable to do it with her phone since Ada files
Bella snapped the picture "I sent it to Meghan"
The sound of doors sliding shut echoed frory voices followed a second later
"Ah, the blasted wedge," Stacey said, looking at the rod holding the levitator doors open She blurred across the room and snatched it
Elyssa looked at the display on her phone
Copy cos…please be patient
They didn’t have tihan stood in the h," Elyssa said,the other tomen
Process complete
She snatched the phone froo back down?" she asked frantically as the sound of the levitator thu orders froh the portal Elyssa swiped it across the reader The levitator dinged The doors started to slide open The terminal and card reader dropped into the floor Elyssa dove through the portal It winked off behind her
"What happened?" Meghan asked, scanning the to find serious injuries
Elyssa’s heart haainst her chest She took several deep breaths to calm herself "I think we just pulled off a caper"
Bella whooped
"We’re bloody fabulous!" Stacey said, and the three wo
After their brief celebration, Elyssa took out her phone, and called Justin
"Are you okay, babe?" Justin asked, relief audible in his voice
"Of course," Elyssa said "Everything went according to plan" She winked at the others while they covered their hter
"Oh, oodness," he said, as if she’d never faced a danger in her life
Elyssa couldn’t help but grin as her heart swelled with affection He was so adorable when he worried about her "It was pretty easy," she lied "Are you guys okay?"
"I guess we’re not as sh "We barely survived"
Elyssa went cold, her s The other woe in mood She put the phone on speaker so the
"Now, don’t freak out, because we s intact," Justin said
"But not our sanity!" Shelton said loudly in the background
"You’re on speaker," Elyssa said "Tell us what happened"
Justin suing concerned looks
"Y-you sao stone into an arch?" Elyssa said
"I thinkthe people who actually created the arch system," Justin said "I don’t even think Mr Gray knoho they are"
"Were they in our reality?" Elyssa asked
"I don’t think so," he replied "I re two moons, so I’m pretty sure it was another realm" He blew out a breath "We ended up back atpizza"
"That would explain why the arch wasn’t working earlier," Bella said