The Tampered Score

Her partner rolled his eyes. “You’re doing it again. People complain about fairness every day. Half of them are just bad losers.” “This is different.” Erin stared at the almost invisible correction trace and felt a dangerous thought form in her head. If this newcomer was truly being suppressed from inside the system, then the attention he was generating was no longer just a black-horse story. It was a needle. A needle that could go straight into the Alliance’s side. She did not report it. Not because she wanted to help him. Because she knew exactly what reporting would do. Once the anomaly entered the formal pipeline, the data would get locked, the audit would get reassigned, and the final conclusion would be that a system error had already