the obsidian proxy
A thousand miles away, deep beneath the churning surface of the Pacific, the atmosphere aboard the repurposed DSRV (Deep-Sea Research Vessel) was tense and claustrophobic. Elias, operating on minimal sleep and rationed supplies, sat in the glow of a few small monitors, monitoring the global aftermath of her Digital Diversion (the Signal Flare).
The twenty-minute window she had given Julian had worked. The Hyperbolic Geolocation Array had indeed been blinded, allowing Julian and Kian to successfully escape the Observatory.