[POV: Sofia Lanka]

"Stop the elevator, Leo. I know you can hear me through the intercom of this dying mountain. You can call yourself the Lawyer, the heir, or the devil himself, but you aren’t leaving this chamber until you explain why the Lanka vaults responded to my biometric signature if I am the 'imposter' you claim me to be. You’re playing with ghosts, and I’m the only one who has ever made them bleed."

Sofia’s voice was a jagged rasp of defiance, echoing through the cavernous laboratory as the ground beneath her feet began to groan. She was standing over the central console, her fingers flying across the auxiliary...