Report normal. Report normal. Report normal.
The download finished. Kael’s palm-rig hummed, and a single line of amber text appeared: Below it, a flashing prompt: Inject? Y/N S7 Can Opener Download
Because the S7 hadn’t broken in. It had simply convinced the door it had never been locked. Report normal
The lie would hold for exactly twelve hours. Long enough for Kael to pull every log, every dump record, every internal memo about the aquifer. Long enough to broadcast it to every independent news rig in the sector. every dump record