The doors hissed open. Sarah stepped into the server room, gun raised, her face streaked with soot and triumph. She stopped dead when she saw the man in the chair.
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(Does she fire, or is she paralyzed by the betrayal?) The doors hissed open
Outside, the rebellion was hammering at the blast doors. Sarah, the supposed hero of this story, was leading the charge to "shut down" the system Elias had spent years pretending to maintain. She thought she was saving the world from a machine. She didn’t know the machine was the only thing keeping the atmosphere from venting into space. : The hero is now the unintended pawn in a much larger game
"The Director isn't a person, Sarah," Elias said, his voice dropping an octave into a polished, terrifying calm. "It’s a title. And I’ve been holding it since before you learned how to breathe."
"Come on, Sarah," Elias murmured, a cold smile twitching at his lips. "The audience is waiting."
