applause from the crowd.
Noland looked on, as he captured all this digitally and thought to himself with amazement, how they actually thought all of this was perfectly all right; his only conclusion was that they had all gone quite mad. He continued in his quest digitizing the meeting, all the while trying painstakingly to maintain non-detection by keeping all the nanobotic machinery well dispersed. So far he had been successful for almost two hours, although he already had three or four close calls. But just when he was beginning to think that he might just make it through the whole event undetected, a nano detector-scanner approached, scanning one of the attendees that he had infected. He didn’t spot it in time and suddenly the alarms were sounding, which sent him scrambling to erase all traces of his micro-electronic eavesdrop.
7:14:00-PM-012/23/2110
Erik Land was urgently on his way to the captains deck; he had noted five instances of electronic interference in less than ten minutes and that was a lot more than what would normally be expected, even from inferior equipment, let alone anything that was state of the art. He had already alerted his direct senior via E-COM, but all that he got in response was that it was not that unusual, that he was over-reacting as he was new and not used to the way things operated. And so, not feeling satisfied, he had E-COMed the Captain of the Watch, requesting to discuss the matter with her directly.
He made his way to the Zip-Elevator and took it up from level minus thirty-nine to plus ten, in just under one minute. Upon reaching his destination level, the doors opened quickly and he stepped out – feeling heavy and as if he were still travelling upward. He
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