The sphere touched Elias’s palm, and the world went beautifully, terrifyingly dark. Thorne does when he’s alone in the office?
Elias, a high-frequency trader who hadn't slept since the Great Correction of ’24, gripped the arms of the velvet chair. "I’m seeing the ticker in the steam of my coffee, Doc. I’m seeing my daughter’s heartbeat as a candlestick graph." THE SHRiNK R&R [Part 1 v1.4]
As Elias reached for the sphere, he noticed the subtext on Thorne’s computer screen: System Update: THE SHRiNK R&R [Part 1 v1.4] – Initializing Human Defragmentation. The sphere touched Elias’s palm, and the world