The air changed the moment they stepped from the final stair onto the vast snow-covered courtyard. What had been the tight confines of the hidden stairwell exploded into an impossibly wide expanse, broken architecture looming against a colorless sky—skeletal frameworks casting long shadows across the pristine white ground.
Number Six stepped forward, a cold smile playing across her lips as she regarded the assembled forces before her. The snow crunched beneath her boots, blood-red against the white expanse.
