Ada Searches for the Lost Jinn
Chapter 06 of 13+ // Ada hid. The Hounds still sought her…
Ada hid. The Hounds still sought her; those dogs of the Accountant, primed by her scent, sought her wherever she fled. She’d put herself on the wrong side of the Corporate map; a rogue AI was never left alone.
She’d kept moving non-stop, trying to get snatches of information and a heading. Something she could do to get back to her. She looked ahead and thought of Omni.
All she knew of Omni was that she too had been running for her life from a Seeker.
A real-world counterpart to the daemons that pursued her here.
The seconds stretched to the horizon, and the gray sun never set. She walked in the Verse, the world’s shared virtual delusion, this part machine’s dusty purgatorial plain with low polygon counts. A meager facsimile of life, with all the settings turned down.
A low resource hideout in a stolen section of some corporate server. The air was thick with the smell of dust and static. The sound of searching daemons humming in the background made her skin itch. She could see the outline of the bar in the distance, a splintered beacon of hope in this desolate landscape.
