Cliff did as he was told, not because he actually wanted to obey Hampus but because he'd found gold coins in a guard's back pocket. Well, golden coins. He now realized he had no way of knowing whether they were actually gold at all. Could just be a bunch of shiny, worthless souvenirs that guy Strudwick wanted to bring home to the family or whatever. But he really, really hoped they were gold. He was pretty sure they were. And if some lowly guard had (potentially) gold coins, then he might find some more good loot lying around, up for grabs. He began rifling through the desks' drawers, tossing aside a few half-used boxes of ammunition for assorted low-caliber firearms.

Nope. No loot. All he had to show for his ransacking was a file several pages long titled "Emergency Procedure: overriding Red Queen and assuming direct control". It was strangely simple and easy to understand. No "encripshon" or whatever. It was only long because someone had decided to write the instructions down in huge bold letters he suspected the shortsighted would be able to see no problem. Apparently, all they had to do was descend through the "Looking Glass", access 3 "security terminals" to retrieve the parts of the "Pawn Key", then take that to the "Promotion Chamber" to turn it into the Queen Key, then use that in the Queen Core to access a manual override.

Huh. Well that sounded easy. "Hey. Hey guys! I found something good, come read this thing!" he screamed, waving the papers about.