Chapters tagged conspiracy

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 11

The gravel announced her before the house did, a dry, deliberate crunch that Katya shortened by a quarter inch with every step, because Illiana never rushed a path. She let her hips swing with her sister’s unhurried arithmetic, weight rolling heel to toe, chin lifted a degree abo...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 14

The summons came as a cream-colored envelope in his interoffice slot, Wallace’s name in blue fountain-pen ink across the front, no return address, no routing stamp. He turned it over twice before he opened it, the way he would turn over a drive someone had left on his desk withou...

by TerraKhanus

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...