October 2- Wisp

“I’m telling you to look again, 8-5.”

There was a moment of silence from the earpiece the tech wore. The comms were real-time and he knew that the silence was pure irritation with him for his demand.

“And I’m telling you, Home, that there is nothing out here. We’ve been over it twice. It was a mech. Or glitch in the ‘wares.”

Or tech error, you mean.

The tech caught a blip of red at the side of his eye and swiped with his fingers to rotate the VR screen into his...