The evidence package glows inside an isolated buffer while Vesper sits beneath the diagnostic rig. Her memory layer is separated from the corporate chain, ready for disconnection.
Revenant remains beside the secondary display, watching the administrator key pulse in steady intervals. A green diagnostic line confirms the disconnect point is uncontaminated.
Vesper
My memories are stable. The commands are still buried in the gaps, but they are not moving anymore.
Revenant
The key is active, but it has no route into her core layer. One wrong command could reopen that path.
The suite dims its overhead panels, isolating Vesper’s rig and the evidence buffer. A confirmation prompt appears: preserve the package, sever the administrator, or hold.
Vesper
Aurora, you mapped the separation point. Tell me what happens if we cut the line now.
Sever the administrator while preserving the evidence