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record this information before the screen locked itself. Storm glanced around for security cameras. There was a camera aimed toward the door, but there didn’t appear to be any other cameras in the stairwell. The government probably figured that being able to see who entered and exited a stairwell was good enough. Storm was in one of the only spots in the entire building right now that wasn’t under surveillance. Quickly, she whipped her phone out of her pocket and opened the camera app.
    With lightning speed, she started taking pictures of the document on the screen, flipping through it and rapidly snapping a shot of each individual page. Even though she had no idea what this gibberish meant, she would have bet good money on the fact that it somehow pertained to the eye-scanners. The document was about fifteen pages long. After photographing that document, she minimized it and saw there was one more document on the tablet of about the same length. She started taking photos of it, and had just gotten a shot of the next to last page when the screen went black. The tablet had locked itself again. She was out of time.
    Storm let out a soft curse word, and stood to head back to her office. She wished she hadn’t missed that last page, but overall she was happy. She had just managed to get her hands on what appeared to be a significant amount of confidential information. She knew better than to try to unlock the tablet again. There’s no way her eyes were on the approved list for the tablet’s security scanner, and she didn’t want a record of her name on attempted scans.
    Storm felt lightheaded as she made her way back to her office. She sat at her own desk for a minute, pulling out her phone and quickly emailing all of the files to Grant. She didn’t bother with a long message. All she wrote was, “You might find these interesting.” Grant would get the hint and start decoding right away. After sending the email, Storm stood and grabbed the Mayor’s tablet, then headed for John’s office. The door was open, and Storm rapped gently on the doorframe to get John’s attention.
    “Hey, Storm,” he said looking up from the screen he was working on. “How are you? What’s up?”
    “Uh, I’m good, thanks. I just, uh, ran into the Mayor on my way back from taking care of something up on the fifth floor. He asked me to give you this tablet.”
    John furrowed his brow as Storm handed the tablet over to him.
    “Oh, interesting. I thought he wanted me to personally come up and get this. He must trust you a lot.”
    “Uh, yeah. I guess so,” Storm said with a shrug.
    John smiled and shrugged back. “Looks like you’re going places in the office, Storm. That’s good. I’ve always thought you were one of our best employees.”
    “Thanks,” Storm said with a smile. “Speaking of being a good employee, I’m going to go ahead and get back to work now.”
    John smiled and nodded, giving her a small wave goodbye as she turned around and made a beeline for her own desk.
    As she sat down in her own chair again, her heartbeat finally started to return to a normal pace. Had she really just gotten away with stealing top-secret information? A wave of regret washed over her. She’d never been the stealing type, and she hated how the last few weeks had forced her to act in ways that went against her morals. But she didn’t have much of a choice. The shifters needed her.
    Moments later, her phone buzzed with an incoming text. Storm swiped to look at it and saw that it was from Grant.
    Interesting. At first glance it looks like the same code as the other information we found. In a meeting right now but I’m going to cross check this as soon as I get back to my office. If I’m right and it is the same, I’ll have this decoded for you by our meeting tonight .
    Storm set her phone down and stared blankly at her computer screen. Her heartbeat was speeding up again at the reminder that she would be seeing Grant tonight.
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