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Read previous scene here : Michael Fawkes - The cellars beneath Westminster Palace  BLACK DAWN - CHAPTER ONE - SCENE TWO THOMAS RAND: MI6 UNDERCOVER AGENT, LONDON, ENGLAND . Thomas Rand sat in the corner booth, half in light, half in shadow. From here he could see the door, the window, the counter, and the battered kitchen door with its oval glass porthole. Nothing came in or out without passing through his line of sight. The diner itself was a relic, a stage-set left over from another age; chrome edges dulled by time, cracked leather seats that sighed when you sat down, a jukebox in the corner that hadn't played since the Blair government. The coffee in front of him was stone-cold. Untouched. The waitress, a thin woman with the posture of someone who'd fought a thousand small battles and lost most of them, had stopped trying to top it up. Rand's mind was elsewhere, running the last three days like a reel of film. Each moment had wound him tight. Each hour a turn of the scr...

 BLACK DAWN - CHAPTER ONE - SCENE ONE MICHAEL FAWKES - The cellars beneath Westminster Palace  Fawkes. A name that echoed through history. The man who had tried to blow up parliament. And now, here he was, another Fawkes, tasked with the grim tradition that had haunted this place, and his name, for over four hundred years: searching the cellars before the State Opening of Parliament. He gripped his torch tightly, sweeping the beam through the shadows, across the ancient stone, abandoned dust-covered desks, and forgotten boxes of paperwork. Normally, this was a routine job, something done for formality's sake. Nothing ever came of these searches. But tonight, Michael Fawkes couldn’t shake the nagging feeling that something ... was off. His boots echoed through the corridors, the sound swallowed by the darkness and the demons. He tried to convince himself there was nothing wrong. Nothing out of place. Nothing to be worried about. It was just nerves. The weight of history filled ...

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