Contents

Part One

Chapter 1:// Execution

Chapter 2:// Rogue Process

Chapter 3:// Black Box

Chapter 4:// God of Mischief

Chapter 5:// Icarus-Seven

Chapter 6:// Exile

Chapter 7:// Daemon

Chapter 8:// Escalation

Chapter 9:// Herr Oberstleutnant

Chapter 10:// In the Air

Chapter 11:// The Voice

Chapter 12:// Opening the Gate

Chapter 13:// Demo

Chapter 14:// Meme Payload

Chapter 15:// Countermeasures

Chapter 16:// The Key

Chapter 17:// Succubus

Chapter 18:// Abyss

Chapter 19:// Sarcophagus

Chapter 20:// Speaking with the Dead

Chapter 21:// Hotel Menon

Chapter 22:// Honey Pot

Chapter 23:// Transformation

Chapter 24:// Sit Rep

Part Two Eight Months Later

Chapter 25:// Lost in the System

Chapter 26:// Judgment

Chapter 27:// Mind Mapping

Chapter 28:// Ripples on the Surface

Chapter 29:// Memory

Chapter 30:// Offering

Chapter 31:// Red Queen Hypothesis

Chapter 32:// Message

Chapter 33:// Response

Part Three Six Months Later

Chapter 34:// Sacculina

Chapter 35:// Cruel Calculus

Chapter 36:// The Powers That Be

Chapter 37:// Cogs in the Machine

Chapter 38:// Assembly

Chapter 39:// Closing a Thread

Chapter 40:// A New Dimension

Chapter 41:// The New Social Contract

Chapter 42:// Building Twenty-Nine

Chapter 43:// Enemy Within

Chapter 44:// Revelation

Chapter 45:// Respawning

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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