Chapter Seventy
Falcon
It’s a long night following Owen around the academy, but I find out enough about his security set up to feel a little better about my mate’s safety. There are cameras all over the place, in all the public areas. There are armed guards on every floor of the building.
The doors get locked at night, and there’s always someone manning the gates, and two or three others patrolling the interior perimeter. It’s a well-protected place.
Yet, a threat still came dangerously close to sneaking in.
“You could electrify the fence,” I suggest, as I follow Owen across the reception area.
The sun’s come up, and it’s apparently time to unlock the entrance and exit doors.
“Yeah, we’ve thought about that,” he admits. “Getting permission to do it would be tricky. There are protected animals in the forest. We have plans to add a stronger fence and leave the old one up outside of that, but we need to do some landscaping first to make room.”
He unlocks the main door and opens it.
It’s bright out there, cool but sunny.
“Where do you keep your tools?” I ask.
He looks at me and raises an eyebrow. “Tools?”
“Shovels, and whatever else,” I explain.
“You want to tackle the landscaping issue?”
“Unless there’s something more important to be done.”
I wait for it, but he just shakes his head slowly.
“You’ve been up all night, skipped at least one meal, and you want to start doing manual labor?”
“What I want is to make sure Robin’s as safe as possible while she’s staying here. If that means I need to dig a trench for a new fence, I’ll do it.”
He laughs. “Fine, but you’ll do it to our plans, and you’ll eat first.”
“As long as I don’t have to leave the grounds, you have a deal.”
“If you’re thinking this might change Lana’s mind about you …”
“I don’t care what she thinks about me.”
He nods and closes the door. “Follow me. The plans are in the security office.”