The tremors continued for a full 4 seconds. Each one felt stretched longer in their minds.
Just as they started to think the building wouldn't hold any longer, everything finally went still, leaving behind damaged walls, scattered rubble, and a ruined ceiling above, but, fortunately, not bringing the structure down.
"Open the door now." Henry felt no relief when the tremors stopped. His anxiety spiked instead, and his voice cut through the lingering silence with urgent force.
The shaking and impact had been even greater than what Zephan's attack had produced. Knowing Adyr was inside, trapped at the center of such power, he couldn't help but picture the worst-case scenario playing out behind that sealed door.
To make it worse, the head researcher's voice came out trembling, barely steady.
"The mechanism is not responding."
