Then—
A signal spikes.
My stomach drops.
“No.”
Boone looks over immediately.
“What?”
My fingers move across the keyboard faster.
“I’m seeing infrastructure disturbances.”
River leans forward from the seat across from us.
“What kind of disturbances?”
“Traffic systems.”
I pull up another map.
Then another.
“Hospital routing servers just glitched.”
Gage frowns.
“Glitched how?”
“Like someone flicked a switch on and off.”
Logan’s voice comes over the headset.
“Is that bad?”
I exhale slowly.
“It’s a test.”
Boone’s expression hardens.
“The second Architect.”
“Yes.”
Another alert flashes across the screen.
Power distribution nodes are shifting.
Water pressure control systems flicker.
Tiny disturbances.
But I know what they mean.
“She’s probing the city.”
