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The door clicks It flies open, and there’s the guard, running out He ju for hi over hishis body inside while Ada

We’re in

21:46

The fire alarh the haze of se space that looks like a chelass cabinets full of beakers, flasks, and brown bottles with red warning labels A huge whiteboard on the wall is covered in precisely drawn equations—? There are no s, but a hallway leads off to other rooms

Adam moves to the counters and inspects the equip like awe or wonder He must love all this science stuff

I scan the roon of evidence, while Chris pops open a panel in the ceiling and helps Zoe out She coughs from the smoke, but her eyes dance with excitee her with my elbow “See, I knew you could do it”

She dusts cobwebs off her blue hair and grins “Piece of cake”

“So we’re inside Nohat?” Trent asks

“We need to hurry,” I say, checking uard will show up or if one of the guards ake early And we only have a little over two hours left in the future

Ada “It’ll be faster if we split up to search”

We each pick a room, and I’m hit with a blast of cool air as soon as I enterelectronic equip for, but I spot a desk in the corner and riffle through it, just in case Finding nothing, I check another room, but it’s just a small kitchen and break room