Crashland
“Jesse kept asking if she was all right, but what could she say? She was as right as anyone would be under the circumstances. The sooner she found the source of the dupes, saved her friends, and stopped Wallace, the better. From there, it was just a matter of the PKs bringing d-mat online—and with Q’s loyalties as uncertain as her location, that was going to be entirely their problem.
Into the station map she dove again, tracing promising threads to their endpoints, the details of which she sent... to Devin for cross-checking if they were virtual and to Agnessa if they were physical. Many of the virtual endpoints turned out to be dead ends, parts of the station’s infrastructure that no longer existed. Slowly, tentatively, she began to think of it as an outline of a forest, with a dense tangle of overlapping roots leading up through a dozen or so much thicker trunks to the canopy above. The canopy was the real world. If she could trace the trunks to where they connected at either end, in the roots or the branches, she hoped to find out where the dupes came from and where they emerged.MoreLess
Into the station map she dove again, tracing promising threads to their endpoints, the details of which she sent... to Devin for cross-checking if they were virtual and to Agnessa if they were physical. Many of the virtual endpoints turned out to be dead ends, parts of the station’s infrastructure that no longer existed. Slowly, tentatively, she began to think of it as an outline of a forest, with a dense tangle of overlapping roots leading up through a dozen or so much thicker trunks to the canopy above. The canopy was the real world. If she could trace the trunks to where they connected at either end, in the roots or the branches, she hoped to find out where the dupes came from and where they emerged.MoreLess
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