Kaelen felt the first chill of real fear he’d known in a decade. An unmanaged instance. A rogue actor writing his own firmware.
“He’s overriding the default ‘Obedience’ method,” Lia said, impressed despite herself. “He’s… hand-coding his own reality. That’s impossible without an admin backdoor.” empire software classes
“Your Radiance,” whispered Lia, his Prime Syntax Officer, “the Eastern Provinces are reporting a happiness deficit of 12.4%. Their ‘Contentment’ class is throwing a null pointer exception.” Kaelen felt the first chill of real fear