Jan burst out into the sun, terrified.
She’d had something of an epiphany while staring at her monitor. Something about that phrase: IN EVENT OF BREACH ALARM WILL SOUND/CONSULT OPERATION MANUAL TO SILENCE. It had reminded her of the code on the back of McKibben's card, the cryptic: IEOB: OP-SI MUST BE INIT. Was it possible, she’d wondered, that the phrase on the card was just a shortened version of: In Event of Breach: Operation Silencer Must Be Initiated? She’d thought so, and done the unthinkable.
Five minutes after McKibben had hung up, she’d attempted to contact the Chief Joseph Police Department—and found the line dead. (Magically, all service had been cut.) Now, as she rushed to catch up with Oberon, she felt as though she were running for her life.
Because her every instinct was:
