Julien slipped through the door just before it clicked completely shut, plunging the three of them into the freezing floor hallway of Camp Three.
He took a second to look around and orient himself in the dim emergency lighting, quickly realising how this entire restricted sector was actually laid out.
This maintenance corridor was clearly the research and holding wing, built directly against the side of the garage where Commander Lena kept the Green Gate.
It made perfect sense from a completely evil logistical standpoint because the military scientists could easily drag their battered test subjects from the prison cells straight into the portal room without ever taking them outside into the public eye.
'Okay, so the giant glowing anomaly is probably just sitting right on the other side of that interior wall,' Julien thought to himself, pointing a quiet finger down the long corridor to show his team the way.
