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CHAPTER 25: THE BONE YARD
Author: L.A. MONROE
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"You step one foot toward that keyboard, Thomas, and I will make sure you never walk again."

Ethan didn't raise his voice. He didn't even turn his head as he stepped past a frozen robotic assembly arm hanging like a dead spider from the ceiling. His coat was stiff with dried blood, his face pale and smeared with black soot, but his one open eye was fixed on the cavernous floor ahead.

Thomas paused, his hand hovering two inches above the glowing blue interface of an

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