“Did you find something?” Ashleigh asked with anticipation in her voice.
“Yea,” Nessa nodded. “A perfectly healthy, clean system with updated defenses.”
Ashleigh took a deep breath.
“Nessa, you don’t know Alice or what she’s capable of.” Ashleigh sighed.
“I actually think I might know her a little better than you,” Nessa replied matter-of-factly.
“I thought you said you had never met her?” Ashleigh asked.
“Oh, I haven’t,” Nessa replied. “But I’ve seen her coding. It’s amazing. Intricate and detailed. Frankly, it would have been easy if she had wanted to do serious damage to Summer. But instead, she had a running system backup. She left an exact copy of everything that was sent out, that she stole or copied or ‘destroyed’.”
The last was said with air quotes for emphasis.
“What about the system attack? All the bugs that took out the lights and the gate system. That wasn’t harmless, Nessa.” Ashleigh countered.
Nessa scoffed.
