Chapters tagged surveillance

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 8

Wallace sat in the dark, and a man’s barking laugh drilled directly into his brain. The thirty-first floor had gone silent hours ago, the motion-sensor lights winking out one by one, leaving only the cold blue glow of his monitors and the steady green heartbeats of the server ra...

by TerraKhanus

Chapter 9

The apartment slept around him, but Wallace was wide awake, working in the blue wash of three monitors. His hands were steady, unhurried, moving with the muscle memory of a thousand legitimate late nights. It was two in the morning. The radiator ticked like a quiet bomb. Beside h...

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 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...