“Can you imagine the code for this thing?” Xyl asked Wally as she rounded another corner of the maze, carefully feeling along the walls beside her. “All object coordinates. You’d have to plot it all by hand. But why? Is it to protect that thing in the middle? What about Runners who have wings on their Personas? Anyone with any sense could change the gravity on their Persona and just jump over the maze and straight into the middle. That doesn’t make any sense, to build something this complex when it could be defeated so easily.”
“Maybe the programmer’s got a bad case of ego, boss.”
“That’s possible, coders are always trying to one-up each other.” Xyl stopped as her hand slid off the invisible wall to her right, felt around for the next wall. But there were no other walls in front of her o
