"Most likely," he answers crisply, utterly uninterested in whatever personal stake the other man may have had in ROMAC's inevitable undoing. It would make him no different from the rest that did, Rush himself included.

"It wasn't meant to be a liberation." Arista flexes her claws once into the wood, her tone mild. "A distraction was required. Unlocking the lower levels simply happened to generate the requisite level of chaos."

Rush looks at her. She gaps her jaws in an apparently unconcerned yawn, purposefully avoiding his pointed glance.