N.K.Jemisin

SOUNDTRACK: Something inspiring. Adjust style for local market tastes per extranet IP address.

EDIT TEAM 1: Can we use Vaenia’s music?

EDIT TEAM 2: No, are you high? We want “inspired,” not “let’s go fuck an alien.”

EDIT TEAM 1: Hey, inspiration’s what you make of it!

She kept pinging on them because in any other crowd, these small oddities of behavior looked suspicious. Potential threats. But she was pinging everywhere, because they weren’t threats.

They were just humans—a complete chaotic mess.

CM 4: Half of Intelligence’s VIs are working to find out. Nothing yet. The other half are busy checking out back-channel chatter about that dead Spectre. The human one.