"Someone's a little serious today," Thane said, an attempt at teasing. "What's the deal?"

"The deal," I snapped, stabbing the ground with my sword again, "is that I kind of want to step on the System and grind it under my shoe until I can't even tell what it is anymore."

"Whoa." The smirk disappeared from his face. "That's something."

"It's everything," I said through my teeth, staring up at the Incipio sky, where no cloud cover remained. The entire sky was filled with ...