SEVER ZERO
Kara asked, shifting her attention to the bio-monitor tracking Ren’s vitals.
Ren was sitting in the padded chair beside her, the heavy welding-mask VR rig strapped to his head. His physical body was perfectly still, a stark contrast to the violent seizures from his previous unbuffered dive. Kara had spent the last forty-eight hours cannibalizing Blackwatch helmet gel-packs to create a crude, but functional, haptic buffer. It wouldn't stop the pain entirely, but it kept his heart from exploding.
“I hear you, Jinx,” Ren’s voice filtered through the console speakers, smooth and coldly detached. “We are standing at the entrance to the Catacombs. The code here is decaying rapidly. The Admin is tr