SERENA POV "You moved the server access," Luca said from the doorway. "Yes," I said, without looking up from my terminal. "To a secondary partition." "Yes." "That partition doesn't show on the main network map." "No," I said, finally hitting the execution key. "It doesn't." He was quiet for a moment, the soft hum of the servers filling the silence between us. "Should I update the network map?" I looked up. "No. Leave it off the map." He looked at me with an expression he had been wearing since I returned from the sublevel—a kind of permanently reassessing attention. He looked like a man who had completely recalibrated his understanding of something fundamental and was still adjusting to the new calculation. "The overnight intelligence summary is on your desk," he said. "I left it

