Helen S. Wright by A Matter of Oaths

Author:A Matter of Oaths [Oaths, A Matter of]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

exhaustive search? Whatever it was, it was growing stronger, too quickly to take any risks with it. Safer to examine it from outside the web.

[Immediate. Disengage.] He broke into Churi‘s practice with the order.

[Acknowledged. Disengaging,] Churi replied promptly. Rafe sensed him begin to obey, then halt abruptly.

[Disengage,] Rafe repeated.

[Inability.] Worry made Churi‘s signal less than perfect.

Rafe triggered the web-alarm by reflex, simultaneously sent [Stand by for monitoring] to Churi.

[Standing by.] Still worried, but under control.

Rafe made a rapid survey of Churi‘s linkage with the web, found nothing to account for his difficulty in breaking it. The intrusive ghost was still getting stronger, interfering with the signal circuits, threatening to cut them off from each other before there was time to make a more thorough examination. He had to get the youngster out now.

[Disengage. Will operate override,] he sent to Churi.

[Acknowledged. Disengaging.]

Rafe triggered the override as Churi tried again, using it to forcibly eject the youngster from the web. For an instant, it worked. He felt Churi disappear, felt him emerge into the dimly lit shub around him, felt him become aware that —incredibly — Rafe was still with him, felt the flare of panic as he dropped them both back into the ghost-ridden web, setting up a wild oscillation that drove them sickeningly back and forth across the boundary between body control and web control.

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