Revelation of Andrei, an edited man, had shaken Lupus Haven to its core. The outside danger was now no longer an unknown virus or dubitative world; it was an enemy spy, one with technology poised on the edge of sorcery. In its wake, the internal conflict appeared to fade, muzzled by the magnitude of the new threat. The pack's inward concentration, increasing in intensity. Their Aegis app, their chief weapon, now seemed both their strongest armor and weakest point of vulnerability.
It was at this level of paranoid intensity that Jax hit his break-through moment. He'd been set to tighten the app's code against intrusion, but his efforts had veered off into an unexpected direction. He was fixated on the "false positive" rate—the minuscule percentage of occasions Aegis identified a user as hi
