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emergency lockdown butto

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h the apartment. Blinding red strobe lights

my hands and knees, my breath echoing loudly in the tight space. A sharp sc

s. Sparks fly against the alloy door. Malach

ripping down my arm. I reach the end of

hard onto the freezing concrete of the private

s docked at the edge of the platform, it

ain, my lungs burning, my legs heavy with exh

ugh the narrowing gap just as the door

ath me as the vehicle shoots upward into the smog-filled sky, lea

r is dim. The air smells l

down until I hit the floor. I gasp for air

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up my spine, settling at the base of my neck. Just

y jerks violently

ver the intercom. "Route anom

lights of the upper city are gone. We are descending rapidl

never find the targets. I will f

the emergency exit door at the back of

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