Chapter Two: Victory Has Been Paid For

photograph unable to recall where it had been taken. Little things. Too little for anyone to worry about. The third document began to load. NEON CUP — ROUND NINE HARBOR FALCONS 2:1 STARPORT CONFIDENCE: 100% RECOMMENDATION: LIN JIANXIA TO EXECUTE PLAN TWELVE. A tactical diagram appeared below. Plan Twelve was the high-press variation Jianxia had drawn on paper that afternoon. She had never entered it into a computer. In the darkness behind her, every dead fluorescent tube flashed at once. Pale blue lines stretched from the laptop and passed through the walls like the hidden arteries of the city. The brightest one was tied firmly around her wrist.