"Downloading now," Kaelen muttered, his fingers dancing across the haptic keys. The progress bar crawled like a wounded soldier. 10%... 45%... 89%.
"You ready?" a voice crackled in his earpiece. It was Rin, his navigator, hiding three sectors away.
Kaelen realized the terrifying truth. SOCIGAMES hadn't released a toy; they had released a tool for the underground to see through the Syndicate’s invisibility cloaks. As he bypassed the sentinel in the simulation, he heard the heavy mechanical whir of the actual drone passing just inches from his real-world hiding spot.