KIRA

The third facility looked like nothing from the outside.

That was the point. A low stone building set into the hillside, no lights visible from the approach, no signage, no perimeter fencing that would declare itself. If you didn't know what you were walking toward it looked like abandoned infrastructure, the kind of structure that appeared on no map and that anyone who noticed it would assume belonged to someone else's concern.

Lyanna moved beside me through the dark without making a ...