Chapter 16
Joe and Jun paused at the interior of the door, taking a moment for their eyes to adjust to the light. Once they were focused, the two could see that the room was void of anything except the single light bulb that was illuminated above their heads. It seemed they were standing in some sort of an antechamber.
"Where are we?" Jun turned to ask Joe, but the Condor had already silently moved to the other side of the room.
Joe slid his hands across the wall, then responded, "A better question is: where does this go?" and at that moment a click could be heard as a panel slid open.
The Condor looked at the Swan.
"Let's go." he said with a mischievous grin.
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On the other side of the wall, Ken made a futile search of the alleyway; there was no sign of either ninja.
"Where are those two?" he asked himself. "There's no way out of here. They couldn't have just disappeared." Then, finding himself face-to-face with the exterior wall, the thought occurred to him.
A secret door! That had to be it... He quickly ran his hands over the wall. There had to be some sort of mechanism to open it. But where? What would it be?