Nisha and I looked at the mats covering the gym floor. Though a bit pitted and torn in a couple of places from our recent sparing sessions, the blue mats looked pretty ordinary. They certainly didn’t look like they hid Omega Man.
I looked up at Shade, disbelief etched in my eyes. “What do you mean that Omega Man is directly below the Gym?”
“Not quite,” said Shade, shaking her head. She folded her arms in front of her chest, a frown on her face. “As I said, it’s complicated. But we have reason to believe that Omega Man is somewhere underneath the Academy campus. He might be under the Gym, but most likely, he’s somewhere else.”
“How do you know this for sure?” said Nisha. “And how come the faculty didn’t know this?”
“That’s what I was speaking with Night Soldier about,” said Shade. “I a
