TWENTY-ONE
THE CALM, FEMALE VOICE FELL ONLY ON
inhuman ears.
"You have five seconds, three, two, one. System
activation now."
A circuit that ran the length and width of the estate
connected.
With an earth-shaking thunderclap of motion and
sound, the Spencer estate exploded. Devices went
off simultaneously in the basement of the mansion,
beneath the reservoir, behind a plain, uninteresting
fireplace in the guardhouse and in the third
level of the basement laboratories. Marble walls
tumbled down over the disintegrating floors of the
fine old mansion. Rock collapsed and concrete
blew into a fine blackened dust. Massive fireballs rose
up into the early morning sky and could be seen from
miles away in their few brief seconds of brilliant life.
As the incredible peal of booming sound rolled
across the forest and died away, the wreckage started
to burn.
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