Again, footsteps echoed through the corridor.
Victoria was just a few passwords short of completion, but time was running out.
Listening to the footsteps, it didn't sound like it was just one person.
Victoria, alarmed, hurriedly closed the box and lay back down on the bed.
The door opened.
Franklin Clegg looked at the woman lying still on the bed and said three words to the man beside him, "Let's begin."
Begin? Victoria thought, eyes still closed, What is Franklin Clegg about to do?
Why would he bring a stranger here?
As these thoughts whirled inside her head, a hand came to rest on her shoulder.
An unfamiliar male voice sounded from behind her, "Victoria, Victoria, time to wake up."
Victoria, no longer able to feign sleep, sat up.
She looked at the man before her, a middle-aged man in a white lab coat.
"What is it?" Victoria asked, looking puzzledly at Franklin Clegg nearby.
