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Jack stole a glance and saw that Drake was holding a spool of bare wire, quite thin but strong looking He was surveying the doorway, looking for so

Drake shrugged, dissatisfied hat he was seeing He began to wrap one end of the wire around the broken e where it was still attached to the wall It was a tall door with three hinges, one that was just above head level, one at ankle height, one splitting the difference

Drake stretched the wire froe to a heavy me

tal filing cabinet against the wall He passed the spool through a drawer handle and pulled it tight He cut the ith a pair of needle-nose pliers and wrapped the wire back on itself, tightening it further

Diana stepped back froes and said, “They’re both clear The one may be a one bar, but at that level he doesn’t even knohat powers he has If he even has anything at all useful”

“Good,” Caine said

Diana sauntered over and flopped into the swivel chair closest to Jack She stared moodily at the monitor in front of her

“What’s Drake doing?” Jack whispered

Diana turned her languid eyes on hi, Drake Why don’t you tell him?”

“Jack is supposed to be working,” Caine interrupted “He’s busy”

Jack turned hastily back to the notebook There it was: a list of function keys He frowned and began to work his way through the keys, pressing, seeing the results,on methodically to the next key

Drake had finished with the wire He ducked beneath it and disappeared down the hallway fro wire as he went

“I’m in the main directory,” Jack announced “This is so old This is, like, DOS or so”

Despite hie at hand It was coe that was pre-Windows, pre-Linux, pre-everything It took his mind off the pain Mostly

“I hope you weren’t too madly in love with Brianna, Jack,” Diana said