Chapter 67

Having agreed on a plan, they all made their way carefully down the tunnel, carrying Drake's computer equipment. Once they reached the Harrison Hall subbasement, it took them only moments to set it up and get their plan in motion.

"He's agreed," Ben told them a tense few minutes later, after receiving Zimmerman's e-mail reply. There was no trace of any emotion in his voice and the lack of it made Lori shiver. He was all warrior now, with none of the warmth or friendliness that Lori had grown to respect. She decided that she liked him much better as a folklorist. Even Wesley was regarding her lover with a certain degree of wariness. "We're meeting here, in this corridor, at six o'clock tonight."

"We can all be waiting here, then," Lori mused. "The rest of us can hide in this room with the lights off."