Predator Eyes Of The Demon 75

Colmeyer checked something on her wrist-pad. Was she ignoring Lewis?

"Problem," Brunka said, her voice tight. "The staff door to Pen B just opened."

Lewis glanced her way. "I told you to lock it down tight."

"I did," Brunka said. "Something overrode the lock."

An intruder alert. An open door.

"Find out why," Lewis said. "Quickly. While you do, call Barnaby, tell him we have a door we can't seal and that Colmeyer won't leave Pen B."-pg.402 chpt.15

A few people held weapons, but most were following protocol, sealing themselves inside assigned safe zones, then lying flat, arms outstretched.

"Brunka," Lewis said, "how did the intruder get through the door to Observation B?"

The locked door. Only admin had that kind of master- leave access.

"A root-level bypass code was used." Brunka said.

"Looks like some code has been overridden at the core level, I don't know how to block it out."

"How could the intruder do that?"

"A sniffer, maybe," Brunka said. "Manual attachment collecting data over days, maybe even weeks? Maybe a man in the middle picking access changes, I don't know."

Days? Maybe weeks? If it was a Hunter, how long had it been on Kivi? Watching, waiting, gathering data...Lewis saw the fear in Brunka's eyes, fear he felt just as intensely.-pg.405 chpt.15


"It opened pen doors," Brunka said, so nonplussed from the sprint she looked at the tablet she'd taken from Control as she ran. "That's the highest-level access we have.

It overrode the safety measures. I don't think I can lock it out of the Pollen Room."

"If we make it, you'll have to try."pg.410 chpt.15


Lewis clicked through monitor coverage. Some people had reached safe zones. Others had not; they'd stopped where they were, stopped and lay prone, just as Protocol three-twenty- four instructed.
Then, all the internal doors slid open. He stared for a moment, trying to process what he saw, trying to understand it. An instant to think there was a
malfunction, but that instant vanished. If the intruder had opened Observation B's doors, what was to stop it from opening any door. Half of his monitor changed to static.

"Working on camera dropout," Brunka said before Lewiscould order her to do so. "Sixty percent of our coverage gone. Make that seventy percent."-pg.406 chpt.15