The Rumor Under the Overpass

Luke went pale. "You're insane. That place isn't for someone like you." "What kind of person am I?" "The kind that dies." Ethan held his stare. "So do you." That was enough. Luke sucked in a breath and gave him an address. The edge of the tech district. Aster Park. An abandoned underground data cooling well. It had once belonged to a cloud services company, until subsidence shut it down. Rumor said the shaft still connected to an old drainage tunnel that ran into the city's core engineering level. "Who runs it?" Ethan asked. "I only know cars go in and out a lot. Helios Guard, consultant office people, and one woman." Luke swallowed. "They call her the agenda officer." "Name." "Mara Stratton."