“Let me know spectator numbers at every 50 mark,” Ling said, “and announce specifics on all specters and ghosts.”

“You got it,” Vapor said.

“Dark, you keep scattering, dampening, and rearranging signals. Throw in some false reads too for good measure.”

“I’ll run a deflection script as well,” Darkholm said, plugging in a wireless drive and running the executable.

“Good,” Ling said. “Let’s keep these ghosts guessing. Location update.”

“Same status, opposite corners of current sector,” Vapor said.

“We can’t track these ghosts’ reads,” Ling said. “But we can at least throw a spectral readout and a crosstide at them.