Kelvin hated having to come into the city and work in the old buildings. Work takes you where it takes you, so you have to go. Having to install state of the art security electronics in a new building is one thing for Kelvin, but to do so in one of the old monsters just seemed somehow wrong to him.

If fighting the traffic to get down town wasn't bad enough, the temperature having broken a hundred earlier in the day hadn't helped his disposition at all. Working past ten at night certainly hadn't improved it one bit either. He took a swig from his last bottle of water while...