I heard a thunderous crack and guessed it was the sound of Ralph busting down a door. “Ralph?”
“It’s me!” called Lien-hua. I threw my light toward her. She’d kicked the door down. “Got anything?”
“No.” I swung my flashlight, but the beam hardly made a dent in the darkness. “Wait…” The fluorescent lights blinked on, off, on. Dim light washing around me. Off, on. I caught the sight of something, a glint of glass. I started bolting across the void. “Over here.” Yes, yes. I did see something.
The tank.
Off, on. Off, on.
I’d found it.
It lay twenty-five meters ahead of me near the corner of the warehouse. Faintly, in the hesitant light, I saw a body in the tank.
Cassandra! I couldn’t tell if she was alive or dead.