Elaine walked over and took the phone from him, once unlocked and the cryptography on the phone broken she could easily use the Enoch at her hip to access the active storage on the phones. A moment later and she had what she needed from her entire team’s set of cryptophones. “Yes. They’re all green,” … Read more
Frog smirked and passed a finger through some curling green hairs dripping down her bangs. “I know everyone is anxious to get this over with,” she said. “But we just need to wait a little longer for David and Russell to get here.” A knock at the door to Elaine’s lab and Frog opened it … Read more
Today the dean looked less like an old British man in a trimmed suit and more like an administrator flush with presence and purpose. To Frog and Elaine, his attitude made him almost-gentlemanly—friendly but not too friendly and filled with a profound joy restrained by reserved social grace. Elaine stood in front of his desk … Read more
Brad Wright and Casey Vargas stood shoulder to shoulder in front of the semicircle of people that made up their DarkNet ARG team while Frog stood away from them and explained the nature of the operation. At first, the team took to her with suspicion—they knew that she’d been spending time with Brad, but they … Read more
The metallic voice of the robotic automatic message repeated what the earlier voicemail said about the subject of potential academic probation and she cut it off midsentence. “What is it?” Frog asked. “Academic services again,” Elaine said. “I didn’t know those automatic systems were so persistent. I might need to hack into it just to … Read more
“It’s a very competitive game,” Brad said. He gestured towards the laptop as he paced back and forth, waving his hands as he spoke. “I have a suspicion that the other teams have also received this message. Think about it. Why only offer the secrets to me? There’s nothing about exclusivity.” Zane tapped his finger … Read more
Larry Pilgrim spoke up. “Brad and I take German,” he said. “I’m a bit more advanced but he’s in my conversational classes. That’s how come I got caught up in all this. Do you need me to translate it for you? It says—” Elaine put her hand on the page, covering the text before Larry … Read more
The entire set of testing took almost three hours as Brad had predicted and by the time they finished a sense of night had fallen over the Law Library. Even without windows open to the outside and the artificial lighting, everyone felt the weight of the day upon them. Elaine rubbed her neck and watched … Read more
He ducked out of the room and Casey sat down heavily in a chair across from where Brad stood. He rolled his eyes and put both hands on the table. “Do you really think that I’m behind the fact this is still going on?” Casey leaned forward. “Give me a reason why I shouldn’t think … Read more
Elaine stoically attended to other developing facts appearing in the datastream of Hadaly’s investigation as she and Frog escorted the trio of cheaters back to the ASU Law Library. Larry Pilgrim vainly tried to engage her in conversation with a dogged persistence; at first Elaine thought he’d been talking to himself, with the way he … Read more