ARIA
The facility Marcus wanted me to surrender to looked nothing like Hunt's operation, no industrial exterior or abandoned factory aesthetic, just clean modern architecture that could have been a medical research center or corporate headquarters if you didn't know what happened in the basement levels.
I walked through the front entrance at exactly ninety minutes with my hands visible and no weapons and the certain knowledge that Kael was positioned three hundred yards out with a sniper rifle he'd acquired from Lyssa's apparently extensive arsenal, and that Luna was with him ready to amplify his abilities the moment extraction became necessary.
The guards who met me at intake were professional and thorough, took my phone and checked for tracking devices and led me through security checkpoints designed to detect and neutralize exactly the kind of rescue attempt we were planning.
