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Angeline wiped a smudge of soot from her cheek and laughed. "Messy? Cierra, that was art. We got the drive, didn't we?"

In the sudden, heavy silence of the vault, they both leaned against the cold steel, breathing hard. The drive sat on a pedestal in the center of the room, glowing with a soft, blue light.

Cierra looked at the drive, then at her partner. The analytical strategist and the crimson storm. Separately, they were formidable. Together, they were an inevitability. Cierra_Bell_Angeline_Red_-_A_Perfect_Team_Addit...

"Yeah," Cierra said, tucking the drive into her jacket. "We got it. Now, how do you feel about jumping off a seventy-story balcony?" Angeline’s eyes lit up. "I thought you'd never ask."

The mission was simple in theory: infiltrate the Core-Tech spire and retrieve the encrypted drive containing the city’s water filtration codes. In practice, it was a suicide run. The spire was guarded by automated sentries and bio-metric locks that could sniff out an intruder from a mile away. Angeline wiped a smudge of soot from her cheek and laughed

"Three minutes," Cierra said, her brow furrowed. "I need three minutes."

"Showoff," Cierra whispered, though there was a hint of a smile on her face. "Effective," Angeline countered. We got the drive, didn't we

"Where's the fun in silence?" Angeline grinned, stepping off the ledge.