“It’s here,” Adam said, getting up and leaving the room. He glanced back once to make sure Alec was coming, and felt warm once Alec was by his side. He wove through the institute, following the feeling, reversing direction a few times to get closer to it, until he’d found the way into a dusty storage room. There were cabinets built along the back wall and Adam went to these, opening one. It was empty, and he frowned into it, then climbed onto the counter below it and rapped at the back wall of it. “It’s behind this. Something feeding from the power of the ley line, but it’s unstable. Flickering.”

He looked back at Alec, indicating the cabinet. “Can we tear this out?”