"What is it?" asked a woman's voice from behind him, somewhere in the dark.
He jolted slightly, as if waking up from a daydream, his mind far away... he turned his head and glanced behind slightly.
"Nothing, the system wants a password....." He looked again at the steadily blinking light on the pad in front of him.
He had been gone for some time and he never felt comfortable with how it happened. But some things needed to be protected, because those things could not be undone.
Nor would he wish them to be.... yet still...
"Is that... good for us? or bad for us?" The woman asked again.
He sat up, cocking his neck sideways so an audible "crack" was heard.
"Well, good for us, It means that I haven't been blocked out of the system"...
Or the system isn't used anymore - he thought to himself.