A ghost was a ghost. And the ghost they had faced had been quite formidable. Vapor didn’t understand how over the course of a sector transfer, Sprite could disable the other ghost to the point of being effectively or even actually gone.

But now wasn’t the time to ask, because at that point, some of their bad luck became worse. It could have been because of the ghost’s tagalong. Or perhaps the missing 11% of Sprite’s access level had a key component that Scotty hadn’t gotten. Or perhaps fortune simply frowned rather than smiled.

Whatever the reason, alarms went off.