Chapter 14 Control Group

The feed stuttered.

Frame drop: 0.42 seconds.

Latency spike: 13.7 milliseconds.

Packet loss: unacceptable.

"Run it again," said Anja.

They rewound the moment she crossed - the way her vitals dropped, then reappeared as metadata. Not blood pressure, not electrical activity - syntax.

"Still no ocular trace?"

"Still blind," said Hosh. "But tele