Marlay wore maracasite ear-rings, imitation Victorian era lobe-tuggers doubling as sound-from-ultrasound demodulators, modded to swipe audio packets from the neustream and patch them to the appropriate cortex for analysis.
Curiously, the first packet was an encrypted message from Dur&al. Tracing a direct route to her temporal lobe, he punched through the noise with:
“What fun to watch you dance_”.

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