Rejected by the Alpha, Claimed by the Beast
"If you trigger a 'Haptic Feedback' error, the security drones will flag us."
We were almost at the Archive building when a man on a silver disc suddenly stopped.
He didn't have a headset on. He was young, maybe twenty, with a bored expression. He looked at us. Not at our avatars, but at **Us**.
He blinked. He looked at the ash on Rowan’s shirt. He looked at the blood on my arm.
"Whoa," he said, his voice sounding thin and weak in the real air. "Hey... you guys look... really high-res. What mod is that? 'The Homeless Experience'?"