The Circuit Novels & Stories

But before it could initialize it, the whole circuit crawled to a near halt from the onslaught of requests. Every process was rendered just barely mobile, and the world stood nearly still. Miko slid the last bit of updated code into place, then deactivated all of her subprocesses. All her Nulls and Mirrors vanished, which allowed the circuit to recapture itself. Everything sped back up to normal as its system resources leveled out.