Latifa digs around in the Keyboard Oracle, pulls out a handful and scatters them on the mouse pad. “ctrl L O S T @\/2,” they read.<\/p>\n
“Whose control?” she asks.<\/p>\n
N E !\/1 “\/’ S.<\/p>\n
Her heart begins to pound like a spacebar. “Somebody summoned something wild, didn’t they?” she mutters. “And it got loose. Am I going to have to debug things, or firewall, or wipe it…” She shakes the little plastic container and upends it.<\/p>\n
“ESC,” say the keys, all of them. “ESC ESC ESC ESC.”<\/p>\n
She makes for the window, and the virals are already splintering her front door.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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