“Nervous?” Dewey’s voice was tinny inside the headset.
“No.” Phoebe didn’t look at him, because there was nothing to see. Their gear rendered them virtually invisible in the shadow cast by a ragged line of fir trees.
She wasn’t lying. Their night-vision goggles made reality more VR than VR. None of it seemed real. It was just another game in a long line of games. Or maybe choreographed dance was a better description.
There was no perimeter fence, but the building was well defended against intrusion. Even with Ollie’s inside information, TelTech had been Pathphinder’s most difficult challenge. The landscaping was both beautiful and functional. Each shrub and tree hid heat sensors or security cameras. Triggered heat sensors activated big lights and alarms. The camera images came up on the
