Jennet hadn’t ever been so deep inside VirtuMax’s headquarters. As the receptionist led her, Tam, and Coranne Smith down the hall, she couldn’t help peeking into the rooms they passed. Mostly just people sitting in front of screens—until they got to the tech hub.
JIt was a huge round space, divided by partial walls that didn’t reach the high ceiling. Each section featured a different type of VirtuMax’s products—an array of Slix systems with five people geared up and playing, a bank of netscreens showing the games the company had developed over the years, and in the back, spotlit like star performers, the FullD sim-systems.
The receptionist marched up to a black-haired man standing in the middle of the hub. “Here are your subjects, Mr. Chon,” she said. “I’ve alerted Miss Jaxley, Mr. Carte
