The other side was dark, but when I adjusted my optical filters I could make out a heavy sheet of plastic with a slit in the middle hanging from the ceiling ahead. The flaps rippled gently as fog swirled around my ankles, carrying a smell that seemed vaguely familiar. I slipped through as the door thumped shut behind me.As I moved through the dark, an encrypted call came in from somewhere inside the building. Someone who wasn’t MacReady was attempting to contact me in secret. I accepted the key and opened the link.Faye, you escaped. It was Dulari.Yes.Don’t tell me where you are. Fawkes got an approximate location on you during his last communication. He’s sent Ang to find you.I stood at one end of a room whose other side I couldn’t see. It was lit from above by some kind of very dim, pale green glow. The room was a maze of tubes, pipes and wires. Wires trailed from somewhere overhead to connections in steel trays that were assembled in stacks. Slick, creviced gray membrane covered each one, and I sensed electric current humming through it.I recognized the smell then.
