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I worked onabout the laws of the universe and believing in soht

"Ten seconds"

Dae to let go I would slow him down, but there was no tih ht shifted back and forth

Beside o!"

I kicked off, letting the Source rush through, expanding each cell with light None of the guys were glowing, but we all were running, practically flying My sneakers skidded over the road Up we cli the strea up with the where to go

But Dae ht, around potholes the size of craters, and up the twisting mountain road

Seventy-five seconds later, because I counted, a twenty-foot-tall fence ca to a coged in air, eyes wide Red and white signselectrical Beyond theth of open space and then a massive structure

"Time?" Daemon asked

"One h his spiky hair "Okay, I got one guard at the gate Do you see any others?"

We waited for about another , but as Luc had said, it was shift change Only the gate was covered We couldn’t wait any longer

"Giveaway frouard dressed in black

I was just about to ask what the hell he was doing when I saw hiround Blue sparks flew and the guard started to twist toward hie of electricity reached him

A violent treun A second later, he was lying beside it The boys headed forward and I followed, sneaking a glance at the guard His chest moved and fell, but he was out cold

"He doesn’t knohat hit hiers "He’ll be out for about twenty or so minutes"

"Nice," Dawson said "I’d have fried his brain if I tried that"

My eyes widened

Daeate The white keypad looked unassu, but it was the first test We could only hope Luc took the caht codes

"Icarus," Blake said quietly

Nodding, Daemon’s shoulders tensed as he quickly typed in the code There was a ate shuddered It swung open, beckoning us like a rolled-out red carpet

Dae a couple of heartbeats to reach the doors Luc and Blake had confirmed I came up behind Daemon as they searched the wall

"Where’s the da between the doors

I stepped back and forced ht slowly "There" I pointed toward the right The pad was sed to it, glancing over his shoulder "Ready?"

Dawson glanced down at me and then at the middle door in front of us "Yes"

"Labyrinth," Daemon murmured from behind us "And please, God, spell it correctly"

Andrew snickered and keyed in the code I wanted to squeeze uns leveled at our faces The door before us slid open, revealing the space beyond inch by inch

No guns No people

I let out the breath I was holding

Beyond the door was a wide orange tunnel and at the end were the elevators Not even a hundred feet and all we had to do was get to those elevators and go down six floors Blake knew the cells

We were seriously going to do this

The door ide enough for two people to h at once, but Dawson stepped forward first Understandable, considering what he had to gain by night’s end I followed behind As he , a s noise

Dawson dropped like he’d been shot, but there’d been no blast One second he was standing in the doorway and the next he was on the other side, withering on the floor, his mouth opened in a silent scream

"No one moves," Andrew ordered

Time stopped The hair on the back of my neck rose I looked up A row of tiny nozzles, barely even noticeable, faced down Too late, I realized in horror The puffing sound cahevery cell Every part of s crumbled and I went down, unable to even ease the fall My cheek s co my body

Brain cells were scrambled and twisted Muscles locked up in panic and pain My eyelids were peeled open Lungs tried to expand, to drag in air, but there was so with the air--it scalded my mouth and throat Somewhere, in the distant part of me that could still function, I knehat this was

Onyx--airborne, weaponized onyx

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