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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 4

By eleven fifteen, the cable was a prop. Derek Voss held it aloft like a prosecutor with evidence the jury would find damning regardless of what it proved. It was gray, standard Cat6, a foot and a half dangling from his fist, the connector swinging like something hanged. Wallace...

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...

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Chapter 15

The jacket was a constant reminder, a stiff weight across his shoulders he felt with every step. Navy wool, single-breasted, bought three years ago for a cousin’s wedding and worn exactly once, it felt like someone else’s hand resting there. Under it he wore a plain white shirt b...