Planting a foot on the wall next to the panel provided Khan some extra leverage. He snapped clean through the fastening screws with a sharp yank. The deep thudding sound was brief with no splintering crackle. No shrapnel, and now he had both feet on the ground. "Done."

With only one hand free to operate the manual controls, he simply dropped the metal plate. It clattered against the floor and the soft creak of a seldom activated lever followed, along with an obedient opening whoosh of the door in front of them. Carefully, Khan tugged her forward so she could reach it. "The door frame is at your ten o'clock. Find it and you can follow it to the inside wall. There's a desk two feet from the edge of the door at hip height. You should have plenty of room to stand in that space while I close the door." The next challenge would be retrieving the portable light source but they would face that obstacle after getting inside.