But before he could speak, his laptop chimed from the dark kitchen table.
The screen lit up on backup power.
A new email had arrived from Mara.
Subject: YOU NEED TO SEE THIS BEFORE MORNING.
Attached was a video file.
Wendell clicked play.
The grainy footage showed the Georgia test site four years earlier. Men in hard hats. A battery room. A warning alarm. Caleb Tate standing in front of a control panel, shouting for the test to stop.
