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[i]CollectorOfMyst[/i] 

Markus, Zoe

Day 1, Morning[/center]

[color=hotpink]"Markus."[/color]

Markus groaned.

[color=hotpink]"Markus, it is time for you to wake up."[/color]

"You can't let me have a lie-in just once, can you?" he mumbled into his pillow.

[color=hotpink]"Comparing data from the last month, you have slept until afternoon every day. That is more than once."[/color]

"Fine, fine, I'm up."

Grabbing his headset on the way out, he fired up the visor. Instantly, a news report ran past his eye. Something about a businessman falling out of his own office window. Reasons unknown.

"Somehow I don't agree with that."

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After travelling several floors, he sat down at his station. The screens hummed to life, and Zoe began running programs.

"Sentinel, any cyber-attacks last night? I've been itching to bust out the new Trojan."

A negative was transmitted through, to which Markus tutted. He wouldn't get any good jobs today then. [i]He'd[/i] hacked into the Tower, and sure, he'd gotten caught, but at least he'd tried! And Sentinel trusted him by now, surely.

"Fine." He leaned back in his chair. "Zoe, fire up the console. If there's no work, then at least I can do [i]something[/i] fun. My new gamechip should have installed by now."

The coding programs closed, and a familiar tune began to play. Maybe his Tower hack hadn't really failed at all.