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

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."

"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-

The rain kept falling. Somewhere deep in the city's core, a clock began to tick—not in seconds, but in lines of corrupted code. She held out the syringe

"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." Tonight

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

"Kaelen," a voice said. Not from the terminal. From the shadows of the room. A woman's voice, smooth as broken glass. "You've been hiding."