Aris pulled a scanner from his pocket—not a medical one, but a signal decoder he kept for these rare anomalies. He waved it over Halloway’s chest.
Halloway coughed, a dry, static sound. "Priority package," he rasped. "Encrypted protocols. But there was a firewall... a storm in the Pacific server cluster. I got knocked out of the stream. I’m buffered here." globalscape patient
"Did... did it go through?" Halloway whispered, his eyes clearing. Aris pulled a scanner from his pocket—not a