Chapter 138

Green lights flickered at a steady rhythm along the walls of the Ice Cellar, the system indicating that all was normal. A slender dark shadow darted through the thick drainage pipes, as agile as a swimming fish. These pipes, two meters in diameter, supplied water to Anjou's massive aquarium, split into freshwater and saltwater lines that ended at a fierce school of piranhas and great white sharks. Probably only the Principal of Cassel College would keep such dangerous pets; the construction of the facility alone and the daily water supply amounted to a staggering expense. Yet even Anjou could not have anticipated that one day someone would hold their breath and swim all the way from the outer intake into the great white shark tank, tearing through the alloy filter nets layer by layer along the way.