The control room fell silent.
Before I could answer, Sienna laughed.
"Keller, that's impossible. She isn't A.G."
She stepped toward the monitor, her voice steady.
"I installed an emergency recovery module before the gala. Evelyn must have found the deployment instructions and activated it."
Some of the tension left Keller's face. Sienna had offered him an explanation that preserved everything he believed about the world, and he seized it.
"You prepared the module?"
I looked at him and lost any desire to explain.
I removed my security key. The patch immediately stopped running, and the internal network returned to chaos. The external channels had already been isolated, so the guests' data was safe, but NexMind's systems began failing again.
I stepped aside and offered Sienna the ch
