Black Water at the Port

In practice it was a massive energy-routing setup for something bigger. Ethan did not understand the engineering, but he understood what "routing" meant when a city started calling itself a battery. He was here to confirm it. Jaden's voice came through the phone, low and fast. "Are you sure you want in there? I can loop the port cams, but only for eight minutes." "That's enough." "One more thing." Jaden paused. "The delivery girl you saved last night posted an anonymous thread. She said you weren't the bomber. It got taken down, but people screenshotted it." Ethan went quiet. "She's going to get hit for that." "So are you." "I already am."