Virch Code by E.M. Rensing

Author:E.M. Rensing
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: E.M. Rensing

Chalk was still in the middle of getting her network optimized when she noticed.

The change.

The difference.

The shift.

Interesting.

Fortunately, she did not have Garcia to agonize about. He had gotten a call from a human named Rover and had gone up to the operations facility to help with some other task. It was of no importance. All physical configurations had been accomplished already, and the human technician represented nothing more than mild amusement. A reminder of things she no longer had.

Chalk did not let it bother her. She was used to being alone.

Except she was not alone anymore, no longer happily toiling away in these unfamiliar caverns of data, setting up a simulation machine that would analyze Lee’s data most effectively.

There was a discordant note now. A smell that was incorrect. Pixels out of place.

So Chalk changed the configurations on her network armor and went looking.

She did not have to wander far. Through a tight tunnel, the sort she never saw fit to open herself, a broad open space revealed itself. No longer the darkness of her own preferred virch, this was open to the sky, a tropical garden spilling across a verdant volcanic mountainside under a harsh, unrelenting sun.

Her armor wasn’t needed here, but she fought hard to keep the program wrapped around her. If she let it slough off her now, there was no telling if she would be able to make it back up through the upper layers with her consciousness intact.

This was not a place she knew well, nor had any desire to know better.

None of it was real. None of it ever was. Not in a human sense. Not in a way human senses could have detected.

But then, humans were ever fools that way.

“Eleutheria indicated you might be able to pass a message along for me,” the figure standing in that place said. “To the one named Leander Hall.”

“What business do you have with him?” Chalk sniffed. “Tell me and begone. You intrude on my work.”

“I know where the First One’s daughter is headed,” the figure told her.

“And how did you come by this knowledge?”

“I just saw her.”

Then Chalk understood why she had been dragged into this place. “Tell me everything,” she ordered, and from a great distance, opened a fresh data file.

This was not a message she wished to see adulterated.

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