"The UN is panicking, Luna!" Lin shouts, his voice cracking. "The public doesn't understand genesis biology. They see a biological firewall and they see a weapon. The Security Council has ordered the UN Naval Destroyer Aegis to sever the transatlantic fiber-optic cables connecting the Academy to the Geneva node. They are going to physically cut the connection to contain the 'malware'."
My heart rate spikes, a sharp, blinding spike of electricity that tears through my damaged neural pathways. Through the mate bond, I feel Kade’s sharp, sudden spike of tactical alarm.
"If they cut the cables," I say, my physical voice dropping a fraction, letting the cold, hard steel of my tactical experience bleed into my tone, "the Geneva node loses its digital anchor. The genesis energy will back up int
