‘Why was that laser recording light so loud?’ she asked.
Philippe laughed.
‘We rarely think of lasers as being noisy, but they can be, especially ones like this, capable of maintaining coherence across multiple wavelengths simultaneously,’ he replied.
Then he patted the antique grandfather clock as though it was an old friend.
Ophelia did not understand what he had just said, nor did she care.
‘Did that thing record the meeting?’ she asked.
Philippe nodded.
‘Yes, it created a holographic record and transmitted it live across our network,’ he said.
‘Isn’t that a high risk?’ Ophelia asked. ‘I mean, aren’t you afraid the transmission might be intercepted, somehow?’
‘We take risks like this every day,’ Philippe replied. ‘We’ve been doing so for decades. Sometimes our lives have been m
