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Nicholas Boothman
Chapter 14: The Signal
The kinetic strikes never came.
Henry stood in the street, braced for impact, watching the sky turn that sickening orange-green. The air-raid sirens wailed their final song. And then. Nothing.
The missiles simply stopped. Mid-flight. Frozen in the upper atmosphere like insects trapped in amber.
Henry's satellite phone buzzed. Impossible—the EMPs should have fried every circuit within a hundred miles. He pulled it out with shaking hands.
It was Jinji. Her voice was raw, terrified. "Henry. You need to see this. Now."
"The strikes—"
"Didn't happen. Couldn't happen. Something stopped them. Something in the code." She was breathing hard, like she'd been running. "Get to the server farm. Basement level. Bring Vincent if you can find him."
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