The dim room buzzed with the soft glow of the computer screen, casting an eerie light on the young woman seated in her gaming chair. Her fingers danced with feverish precision across the keyboard, tapping away at an impossible puzzle Lucian's mobile phone, the device he carelessly discarded, unaware it would fall into her hands. Her dark eyes shimmered with an unholy light, the shadows under them betraying the sleepless night she'd spent hacking it.
For hours, she had been focused solely on this task, and now, the final barrier was about to fall. She smirked, her lips curling into a twisted smile as the lock screen clicked open. The phone's light flared up, illuminating her crazed, pale face.
