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Chapter 11 - A Master in a Mask

The elevator doors had barely hummed shut behind Marcus and Malcolm before Luca retreated into the shadowed alcove of the executive kitchenette. The pristine silence of the 102nd floor was a stark contrast to the chaotic biological violence that had just unfolded.

Dahmer tapped his earlobe, activating the sub-dermal comms link. His voice was cold, clinical rasp of a commander.

"Kaelen. Report."

"I've been monitoring the thermal spikes from the van," Kaelen's voice crackled, sounding strained. "The Alpha's readings went off the charts. It looked like a solar flare on my monitor. What did you do, Dahmer? I felt a ripple in the local field."

"He was in pain," Dahmer said, his eyes tracking a single drop of Malcolm's blood on the carpet. "His own biology was tearing him apart. I didn't have a choice. I stabilized him. I used the Enigma core to rewrite the cellular damage. He's healed. Completely."

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