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MELATI STARED AT the screen, but that didn’t make the words go away. She scrolled down, but that didn’t make the words go away either. They just wriggled out of their positions and repositioned themselves across the new text. This was something active, keyed to her display, not the file.
It was something that must have come out of his mindbase when he’d been connected to the BCI interface. Or shot with the tranquiliser. She remembered hearing words in an indistinct woman’s voice after that incident. Was this the same thing?
Dixon said that the worm had come out of the mindbase when they first read it. By God, what if it was something that was embedded in his mindbase that replicated itself? Something autonomous. They had all thought—and obviously they’d been wrong—that the episode of
