Antoinette kight

Previously

…He saved the data, his heart pounding with a mixture of trepidation and exhilaration. He knew what he had to do. He had to find Antoinette, and he had to believe her. The world, or at least his corner of it, was in more danger than he had ever imagined, and the key to its salvation lay not in complex equations or advanced technology, but in the simple, profound power of understanding. He looked back at the photograph of himself with the lion, a faint smile touching his lips. Perhaps, he thought, he hadn't been so compartmentalized after all. Perhaps that quiet kinship had been a whisper of this truth all along.