Looking over the displays, Ariel could see that her intrusion had not triggered any alarms so far. She was dimly aware of the breathing and pulse rate of her physical body, hidden away in a safe-house kilometers from the target site. Her senses were focused totally on the virtual world and what was happening there. A few commands to her cyberdeck sent out a looped playback of the quiet scene outside the building and among the corridors into the central security processor. The loop would continue to display that image for as long as Ariel wanted to, blind and deaf to the events about to happen. The loop would eventually trigger an internal alert in the system’s self-diagnostic, but if the Hammermen were around long enough to worry about that, something far worse than a simple internal alert would happen first.