Reed stood in the shadow of the steel columns, the colossal structure towering over her.
The facility itself seemed ginormous up close, Reed didn't need to guess GOI must have spent millions on construction if not more.
The pillars supporting the entire length of the laboratory were a blend of concrete and steel wiring, drilled into the ground with several supports in the form of steel stabiliser ropes attached to each of the columns.
The construction was situated on a large concrete platform, with the bulk of the building stretching up like an overextended twisting bubble, stretching all the way from the surface to seemingly deep underground.
Up close, the glass covering the bubble-like facility revealed itself to be an extra-thick glass, plated along the frame of the building in a distinct honeycomb pattern. Reed couldn't see inside, suspecting the glass had been coated with the reflective film.
"How do we enter?" she asked, stepping onto the platform.
"I... I don't know... Let's search for a breach in the glass somewhere..." Laine encouraged, but the telltale tremble of his voice betrayed him.
"You aren't sure there is one..." Reed muttered.
"There must be one."
She continued her wobbling, walking past the columns and into the inner ring of the stabilising structures.
Laine couldn't have been wrong, judging by the amount of debris and loose wiring littering the floor. The facility had sustained some damage in the upper rings of the lab, but Reed didn't see anything indicating there would be a potential entrance.
She passed by the steel ropes, avoiding getting too close to the massive screws that kept them secured to the ground.
Her eyes slid across the rusted clips holding the lab bubble in place, stabilising its transition into the underground with giant sails and clips digging into the ground around it.
She could see it clearly.
There was a gap between the facility and the platform. The closer she got, the wider it seemed.
If there was a hypothetical entrance somewhere around level zero, there was no guarantee she could jump over it...
Her inner voice scolded her for her apparent pessimism. She would need at least a few minutes to walk around the glass structure... There was still some time...
Slowly but surely, Reed made it to the edge of the gap, gazing at the glistening surface of the panels. They seemed sturdy, most of them fully intact. Some were scraped while the others looked untouched by the ruin that had already sunk its teeth into the place.
No cracks.
No leaks.
No indication the panels sustained any damage.
She began to trail the edge, following the circular gap while her eyes scanned the honeycombs.
Her eyes were trained on the facility walls.
She tracked each and every crevice, slowly and thoroughly.
She couldn't afford to miss anything...
Not when she got that far.
The minutes dragged on.
Nothing... There was nothing...
Everything looked almost brand new.
Soon she made a full lap.
Impossible... This is impossible...
Despite the ache of the burns littering her body, she sped up, limping around the construction.
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Deep Dark Blues
HorrorDefeated. Discredited. Forgotten. But whatever they say, Rowan Reed is not a quitter. Life hadn't treated Rowan kindly but with a sudden opportunity to research an oceanic anomaly, she takes a leap of faith into the cold depths of the Atlantic to re...
