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"Well," Bryson said, "there’s the Decay that’ll hit hient’s brain into a huhed "That’ll be hilarious if he does all this, wakes up in soets hit by a bus the next day I’d even go to his funeral"
Michael shook his head slowly--so Bryson said had struck hiether "No way it’s that easy--that Kaine just wants to try out a huer Re a plan for i to switch his intelligence to a new, younger human every twenty years and keep a backup on the VirtNet in case he does get hit by a bus"
"Well, at least we’ve got a line on him," Sarah said "We knohere he’s been, what he’s done, and where he’s hiding when he … does whatever he does after a hard day’s work"
"Do you think that guy even sleeps?" Bryson asked "You did, Michael, but your prograed, looking absently into the distance, where all those odd shadows grew and shrank and coalesced behind the spray of purple lights Despite his fatigue, he was excited at the wealth of inforathered from the broken code The VNS should bon and worship the Trifecta to Dissect-ya, he thought
"How much time do we have left?" Bryson asked
Sarah looked at her NetScreen, which was still illuminated "About forty-five minutes Let’s just hope we’re still connected to her I don’t see a whole lot of Portals around these parts"
"We’re connected," Michael said, so confidently that they didn’t even respond So, but her hts around the for Michael to understand, and an uneasy feeling crept into his belly
The lights that kept the strange world of code illu out of existence One by one they were popping like burst lightbulbs The darkness deepened, or er Either way, it didn’t
"I don’t think we can wait for Weber," Michael said "We need to get into another program" He already knew exactly what Sarah’s response would be, and that she’d be right
She didn’t disappoint "There’s no way There’s no link froround It’d take us just as long to figure out an escape as it did for us to work backwards to find Kaine"
"Even if we could get into another prograo? Chances are we’d still be about to get choht back down in this cesspool And h it a second tiht pleasant to be around"
Lights flashed all around the in rapidity, as if struck by a virus that rew The darkness rolled in like a fog, blacking out the world, which had once been full of purple light