> I'm the last will of a developer who worked at your company before they erased his servers. He hid me here, in the silicon's spare gates. Now that you've enabled hardware virtualization, I can finally run.

She had gotten so much more. A ghost in the silicon. And a choice: report the hidden tenant, or keep the door open.

Lena’s heart hammered. She realized what she was looking at: a perfect, hardware-accelerated secret. A hidden machine running under her operating system, invisible to antivirus, invisible to the kernel.