She slipped inside.
She paused at a reinforced steel door marked . A red light blinked mockingly. Tifa didn't have a retinal scan. She didn't have a keycard. What she had was a memory of a similar lock on the Sector 5 plate, and the knowledge that hydraulics have a tell. infiltration mission tifa
She found it on a steel desk next to a half-eaten plate of sushi. The executive had stepped out for a bathroom break, leaving his lunch and his treason out in the open. Arrogance. It was Shinra's greatest weakness. She slipped inside
He slid down the glass, unconscious.
Tifa shook out her hand. The knuckles were raw. She glanced at the Turk’s prone form. Sorry. She meant it. Most of them were just former soldiers trying to pay a pension. Tifa didn't have a retinal scan
The room was a gallery of nightmares. Glass tubes filled with murky green liquid, each containing a half-formed creature with too many teeth or too many eyes. Tifa’s stomach tightened, but her face remained a mask of calm. She wasn't here to save the monsters. She was here for the folder marked "Reunion Theory."