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Nancy pried the window open and dropped lightly into Johnny’s room. She looked around in disgust, unable to believe that Johnny was as messy as he appeared to be. She brought up her hand and started keying an entry into a small computer strapped onto her wrist. The wrist computer started emitting a series of beeps like a sonar.
Nancy walked around the room, listening to the beeps get faster as she approached different pieces of technology. She went around the room once, listening to the series of beeps before deciding on where to refine her search. The old computer desk was one area, so was the alarm clock by Johnny’s bed, and oddly enough there was something in the ceiling attracting the device’s attention. She decided to start with the desk. She walked over to the old computer, listening as the beeps got quicker and louder.
Underneath the desk, Ackers was frozen in wide-eyed fear. He couldn’t see who had snuck in through the window, but he knew a technological radar when he heard one. He listened as the beeps came closer; he was about to be caught.
Nancy walked forward, holding the wrist computer ahead of her as the beeps reached a frantic pitch. There was something powerful somewhere around the desk.
A large explosion from downstairs rocked the house. Nancy lost her footing and had to grab the desk to steady herself. She heard the sound of booted feet running over carpet. Someone was yelling orders. Nancy was going to have to abort; this mission was compromised. She keyed in a series of commands into her computer, turning off the beeping, and then headed back to the window.
A quick look outside told her that there was no one covering that side of the house, at least she hoped there wasn’t. In any case she didn’t have much else left to her; she had to try and escape.
Nancy dove out the window.