The featureless corridor was brightly lit and deathly silent, other than the sounds of my ankle chain’s clashing while she drew me along to its other end. Five minutes later we stood before the double doors and they slid apart to the command of a key being turned in another of the high wall panels. Alexandra pulled me inside a surprisingly large elevator, for that is what it was, and the doors hissed closed. She had to open yet another locked panel and press more buttons to get the elevator moving, then closed and locked it again while we slowly descended.
“This place is incredibly secure, Julia. There’s no way to get out of it, other than by the way we came in, and as you can see, the arrangements for that are quite detailed and complex. I suppose you could call it security in depth. Fas
