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Daventree told Yanthi about the door as soon as Serran and Lybor headed to the canteen. She seemed annoyed he hadn’t made more of an effort to force entry, then said she had a few tricks, and that she’d have a look later. They couldn’t talk for long, though—their colleagues only took a short break.
Back in his room, Daventree pulled up the virtual Factory on his screen, traced the route between the office and the maintenance room, then traced the passage of the air ducts.
A part of him hoped Yanthi couldn’t unseal that door, and that they had to abandon the whole project—but another part of him imagined crawling through those ducts, a light ahead growing and growing, warmth flooding in from the sun. He imagined climbing out of some concrete structure and seeing clouds rac
