Blood on the Asphalt biker
In the center of the bay, sitting on a lift made of glowing data-cables, was a machine that shouldn't have existed.
It was the Norton. But it wasn't the bike from the simulation, and it wasn't the charred wreck from the silo. It was a "Hard-Light" construct, its frame woven from the same silver-hawk code I’d used to shatter the tower. The variable-compression Engine wasn't made of steel; it was made of pure, high-density logic. It pulsed with a soft, sapphire light, its intake drawing in the surrounding static and refining it into raw thrust.