CHAPTER SIX And unless we stop Holly, Valerie will probably die,” I said. “Or be deleted or whatever counts as death for AIs.” I stopped speaking just then and waited for Brains and Vanish to respond. The two of them had listened to my story about what happened in Vault F very closely over the last hour, just asking a few questions every now and then to clarify parts I didn’t describe well. When I finished, though, the two exchanged looks with each other but did not say anything at first. I couldn’t blame them. My story was pretty weird and sounded even weirder now that I was outside of the Vault and telling it to someone else. As superheroes, Brains and Vanish had probably been in a lot of weird situations, but as far as I knew, they had never dealt with a living virus kidnapping an AI