Chapters tagged betrayal

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 1

The Luckiest Man Alive ---------------------- The server room found him first every morning, the way it always did, the cold hush of it settling over Wallace before the rest of the thirty-first floor had so much as flickered awake. At 7:43 he was already at his workstation, tuck...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 10

The discrepancy was small, which was what drew his attention. Eleven kilobytes of mismatch between an archive index and the folder it claimed to describe, the sort of rounding error most administrators would have logged in a ticket and never touched again. Wallace had never been...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 12

The server room kept its own weather. At eleven at night the air in it was colder and drier than anywhere else in the tower, a thin, filtered chill that smelled of warm dust on hot circuitry and the faint metallic sweetness of recycled breath, and Wallace sat inside it on the rol...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 13

The elevator opened on the fourteenth floor with a soft chime. Katya stepped into a hallway that smelled of lemon oil and nothing else, her heels sinking into the carpet with Illiana’s practiced, unhurried cadence. Beneath her coat, the costume was a second skin of intention. A b...