Chapter Four: My Shadow Boarded Before Me

She had come to Zaragoza not to save anyone, but to record whoever survived the first key. “So you were watching me.” “Until you used twelve drones to save people the rules considered irrelevant. Since then, I've been watching the Council.” The coin burned hot. Lu's shadow stretched east and projected an airport terminal onto a wall. In the vision, he entered a restroom. Three seconds later, a man in a gray suit emerged carrying Lu's equipment case. Countdown: 06:11:09. The impostor passed security and handed the case to an airport employee. Red patterns ignited inside its batteries. A flight for Beijing lost its shadow among the clouds and vanished as if erased. The gray-suited man looked at a camera. His face was Lu's.