4a: To the Cloud

Daria sucks in a sharp breath as Yvette stalks up behind the guard. The man yells at Daria, …Why would you do that?! Why would… The man’s voice cuts off as Yvette touches him. Like air escaping a balloon the man seems to just deflate in front of Daria. As his loose skin, clothing and items crumple to the floor in a heap, his keys fall out of his hand and slide across the floor towards Daria’s feet. Yvette’s empty eyes focus on the woman, an infinite pool of blackness and void within.

Daria fumbles with the keys her hands shaking as she tries to force them in the lock. She drops them two times and as she finds the key and inserts it into the lock Yvette rounds the corner. As she moves there is a warped distortion to her movements as she seems to flicker in and out of the hallway. An ethereal voice flits ahead of the woman, wispy, vacant and ominous

I have such wonderful things to show you…

The women run in the door and slam it behind them. The room is full of three rows of server cabinets housing computers and a mass of ethernet cables that are neatly organized in bundles that vaguely resemble a circulatory system. Even though the lights are out, the servers still have power, blinking status light giving the odd effect of twinkling stars down the rows of cabinets.

Daria spots a breaker box tucked behind a cabinet to her right. Amanda notices a small foldable table and chair down the one row of infirm looking server cabinets.

Amanda rushes over to the table, pulling her phone and switching on the flashlight. She looks at the screen and sees a prompt in the lower right corner of the screen that says "Safely to Remove Hardware Your Mass Storage Device can now be safely removed from the computer". Just as Amanda registers the prompt she feels a cold wind stir the back of her neck. Turning she sees the eyeless form of Yvette reaching a hand out to her when Daria throws the switch and the power goes out. The room plunges into darkness save for the weak light of the phone's flashlight for a brief moment before the emergency lights kick on casting dim lights against the surrounding walls and doorway. Amanda looks about as Yvette seemed to disappear in a flash.

Amanda finds an empty hard drive port on the front of one rack mount server. It is in close proximity to where the screen is located.