Chapter Four - Heat Comes Through the Walls

Lucy slowly turned the screen around. Someone had opened the level-two door from the inside. The figure at the threshold was not one of the invaders. It was a shelter worker, one of Sophie's own people, sliding a backup card into the reader with practiced ease. "He's yours?" Elliot asked Sophie. Her mouth trembled once. "Yes," she said. "But he shouldn't have had the card." In that moment everybody understood that the real betrayal had not come through the outside breach. It had started with the person who was supposed to keep order. *** Chapter Five begins with the door behind level two, and it is not holding supplies. It is holding hunger.