Inside hangs a long, blue floor-length coat with circuitry embroidered into the collar and enormous bells sleeves. This is the coat of the sisters of the Circuit, and it isn’t until she slips it on and fastens it around her that she feels safe again.

street lights gutter and go out

They are wrong. In here, hexers are the law, the strongest line of defense against those that would tear the virtual world apart. Without hubris, Isidore RAM knows she is the best. There has been no worm, no virus, no cyb-ter threat she has not been able to thwart. In the fight to keep the Grid code pure, she is its strongest protector. On the Grid she has all the power.