Bloodscript: Survival Game of the Reborn
“HIGH-BANDWIDTH UNITS. ABLE TO THREAD MULTIPLE WORLD DATA STREAMS. YOU ARE… EFFICIENT.”
It said it like praise.
I felt a little sick.
“And him?” I asked, nodding toward Corvin.
If the Game had given him a label, I wanted to hear it from the thing that had *written* it.
The Administrator turned, the swirl of code on its face rearranging into a rough mask of lines that might have been eyebrows for a flicker, then dissolving again.
“BOUND ESCORT SUBROUTINE,” it said. “FIELD GUARDIAN FUNCTION. DESIGNED TO PROTECT HIGH-YIELD PROCESSORS FROM EARLY TERMINATION AND GUIDE THEM TOWARD CORE GUARD DOG, INFORMALLY.”