[Editor's note: This should be taken with the same grains of salt as the previous chapter. -- Karak]
Chapter Thirteen:
"Same drill as last time." Em popped the trunk and began arming himself again. "I'll go in first. Hopefully we won't need this gear," he waved a hand at the open trunk, "but better safe than sorry." Varrow checked her pistols again and Em closed the trunk, locking the car and arming the auto defenses....
Some people say breaking in to a computer is an art form, that it takes years of dedication and experience to accrue the necessary skill for a righteous hack. Some will spend months planning a single hack. Those are usually the bigger jobs, high paying, high profile, higher risk. Some Luddite wants something specific but knows enough to know he can't get it himself, so he asks you to break in to a megacorp and steal these certain bytes, and you say "Okay, sure" because...
The main characters of Optinomicon
Fun to draw, these two.
