"Oh shit," Ally whispered. She opened a door and pulled Stone into the examining room, where her mother had first been admitted. Just as she did she heard the ding of the elevator and caught a glimpse of Debra and David Van de Vliet's senior researchers, getting off.
When she closed the door, the room should have been pitch black. But it wasn't. A candle was burning on a counter and there was a figure at the far end of the room.
He was sitting on the examining table, in the lotus position, his eyes closed.
"Are you ready?" Kenji Noda asked. "I think just about everyone is here now."
Oh my God, Ally thought. What are we going to do?
She watched helplessly as he reached over and touched a button on the desk. A red light popped on above the door. A moment later, it opened.
"What are you doing here?" Debra asked, staring at them.
"Getting some exercise," Stone said.
Then Winston Bartlett appeared in the doorway behind her.
"How did they get up here?"