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The knob turned without any resistance and the door swung inward, nearly spilling lowing a, like supersized versions of the portable field light I recoveredBecks behindthe door shut There were three old-fashioned deadbolts on the inside, the kind of things that can never go down, not even in a power failure I slid all three of them into the closed and locked position before I’d even finished processing the ih to make me wince "Where are you? Are you okay?"

"We’re in so my pistol trained just above the knob If the infected started trying to batter their way inside, I’d hts red, yellow, or green?"

"Yellow" It was close enough to the truth, and closer than either of the other options

Kelly sighed in obvious relief "That ed, but you’re not in one of the sections already locked down The door is soundproof, scent-proof, and splatter-proof, so as long as everyone inside is clean, you should be okay"

"As long as we don’t et out of here, Doc?"

"There should be a door directly opposite the one you cah"

The as blank and featureless "No door"

"Touch the wall"

"What?"

not iJust do it"

If Kelly was trying to kill us, she wouldn’t have given us a bolt hole I nodded toward the far wall, saying, "Doc wants us to touch it"

"Touch it?"

"Yeah"

"Anything’s better than going back out there" On this philosophical note, Becks slapped her left palainst the wall--which i a second wall behind it There was a door at the center, twin to the one we’d entered through