“Listen up people!” Ling said. “We’ve lost a fellow ace mech hack in the midst of a dagger. I’m confident, however, that Sprite’s skills far exceed ours and that she’s not lost to herself. Therefore our course of action remains the same: we need to keep running backup and expect her to do what she does. Scotty, I need you to keep us posted with every increase toward encryption.”

Scotty nodded, not looking up from his screen, fingers flying their rapid dance back and forth across the keyboard. “You got it.”

“Vapor, you’re on crowd control data.”

“Rodger,” Vapor said.