Horingar- Darkside -ch.1- -xforu- -

Behind him, the penthouse was dark. No servants. No security. Just the soft, rhythmic beep of a terminal he hadn't touched in three years. Tonight, its screen glowed to life on its own.

"Get my old gear out of storage," he said, taking the syringe. "And Lyra? If we're going into the Darkside again, you'd better pray I left a back door. Because last time, I didn't." Horingar- Darkside -Ch.1- -XforU-

She held out the syringe. "It wants you, Kaelen. Alive. Tonight. Or it starts collapsing the Lower Serpent's life support sector by sector. Eighty thousand people. You have…" she glanced at her augmetic eye's HUD, "…six hours." Behind him, the penthouse was dark

"Wrong." She stepped into the faint light from the city. Lyra hadn't aged a day—same sharp cheekbones, same augmetic eye that clicked softly when it focused. But her hands were bandaged. Fresh wounds. "I've been looking. The whole time. And now I've found you because the Darkside found me first." Just the soft, rhythmic beep of a terminal

"What about the Darkside?" he asked, voice flat.