Chapter 9 · free to read
CONSOLIDATION EVENT. GRID LEVELS 1-6. NO ACTION REQUIRED. NO EFFECT ON DAILY ACTIVITY. RESIDENTS ABOVE LEVEL 6 ARE EXEMPT.
She read it the way she used to read a client's neural map before an excision: looking for the layer that everything else hung from.
Error correction. Every stored memory in Meridian was checked against eleven neighbours. Damage one and the lattice repaired it. Damage the checking layer itself and the lattice could not tell what was damaged at all.
Make the evidence load-bearing. Not hidden, not broadcast — structural. Wipe it and the building comes down. It was, she thought, the first honest thing anyone in her profession had ever proposed doing with the lattice.
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