I can't! Asher sobs, his voice cracking. The bedrock is full! The telluric grid is full! There's nowhere for the data to go!
I look at Elara. She closes her sketchbook and stands up. She walks over to us, holding out the book. The bedrock is full, she says softly, her dual-voice echoing strangely in the quiet room. But the digital world isn't. If we can't push the data into the earth, we have to push it into the cloud. We have to use the polymorphic code against itself.
I stare at the sketchbook. The realization hits me with the force of a physical blow. The polymorphic code is a digital-biological hybrid. It's designed to attack biological systems. But if we invert the frequency, if we use the genesis energy to rewrite the code's core architecture, we can turn it into a biological virus
