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things that went on here, well, they were not exactly pretty Or al

He utted and rebuilt Old wooden doors with a top half of frosted glass engraved with departlass doors accessed by key card ports

He couldn’t get into any of these rooms without a key card And if he tried, he was certain an alarlass had one weakness: He could see inside the rooms In one space he saorkstations with co equipment

In another rooers It could be

Or someone

In another was a helles

In yet another was aarea behind it Next to the gun was a helmet with a surround that would cover the eyes and wires and cables co to a control box attached to the wall

Behind another glass door were enor across the soh the people didn’t work around the clock here, the computer systems did

Another space was set up as a che through pristine tubes Set on work areas around the roonized aswith some pieces of equipnize

He came aith a firm conclusion

They’re still at it here

He looked down at his hands and then slid his sleeve up to look at the scars there His whole body was a scar

On the outside

And on the inside Maybe more on the inside

I’m actually all scar tissue on the inside

He left the second floor and went to the first, keeping well away from s and doorways There was a reception area near the front doors

He had expected that

And so else he expected was there

Atalanta Group

That was the name of the business that was housed here

At first Rogers’s brain autonized that wasn’t right

Atalanta Group

He had never heard of it

But old coone fro time

He checked his watch He’d been in here a half hour

He went back to the roof and peered over the edge The guards weretheir patrols He waited until they had onceback down the building after fixing the lock on the access door to hide any sign that he had breached it He scaled the fence, landed on the other side, and made his way quickly back to his van

He drove back to the ot there in twenty minutes He went to his room, sat on the bed, and pulled out his phone He put in the word “Atalanta” It did not take long to get hits

Atalanta was a ical female warrior of Greek descent, the only woo and the lady who had killed the fearsoularly listed aical warriors

When he looked up “Atalanta Group at Fort Monroe, Virginia,” he got exactly nothing There was an Atalanta Group, but it had to do with specialty food and it was nowhere near Fort Monroe

Rogers sat back and thought about this

Secretive Perhaps to a paranoid degree

Atalanta, a great fes?

He dropped his phone, lay back on the bed, and closed his eyes

His lifetiold

It was about daht

Claire Jericho was apparently up to her old tricks

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