They came from every direction at once.
Arthur felt them through the network before the first boot hit stone.
The group had maybe twelve seconds before every exit sealed.
Arthur looked at the holding chamber door ahead of them.
Then at the corridors on both sides.
Then at Vexis.
Vexis looked back at him.
'I know,' Vexis said.
Arthur looked at his hands.
He'd been careful about Hellshade.
Careful about what he showed and to whom and in what context.
He'd been careful.
He looked at the converging signatures and a sealed corridor and a room full of chained children behind a door he hadn't reached yet.
Forget it.
The thought arrived clean and without ceremony.
We go all in.
He raised his left hand.
