"Whoever built this firewall isn't a municipal security officer... it's a phantom hacker," Zhea whispered, her eyes locked on the chaotic stream of red characters flashing across her primary monitor.
Rafael leaned closer, his tall frame casting a cold shadow over the central console as the server alarms wailed continuously in the background.
"Can you trace the intrusion vector before they lock us out of the mainframe completely?" Rafael asked, his baritone voice maintaining absolute, unyielding calm.
"I am already counter-attacking their proxy nodes," Zhea replied, her fingers moving across the mechanical keyboard with blistering speed. "They are routing their code through the central depository's secure server room."
"Then we take the server room," Rafael stated smoothly, a dark,
