Agent Kade didn't bother looking up from the book he was reading when the console alarm went off.
Region T's systems screamed every day, and half of those alerts weren't worth the coffee he drank while ignoring them let alone putting down his book when they were just about to discover the dead body.
Normally, they turned themselves off after someone at the location discovered they were going off, but even after ten minutes, this one didn't stop.
Instead, the sound sharpened, climbed even higher in sound and urgency, and refused to reset itself. All that told him more about the situation than the tech beside him could. He put down his book, pushed away from the desk with a slow exhale, and stepped toward the primary monitor as the header populated across the top in thick, ugly red.
CONTAINMENT LOSS – LAB T-9
SIGNATURE: UNRESOLVED
MORTALITY: 100%
SURVIVORS: NONE
EXTERNAL INTERFERENCE: CONFIRMED
