Grace was calling back. Her voice was shaking. “Leo? The master ledger just rewrote itself. It says you called me at 3:47 AM. And I approved a routine audit waiver for BL-8893-0MEGA.”
Another, longer pause.
BancsLink had woken up.
He looked at his phone. The third voice had disconnected. bancslink
“Leo,” Grace said, her voice dropping an octave. “I’m looking at your session logs right now. According to the master ledger, you haven’t logged in since 6 PM yesterday. You’re not at your terminal. You’re not even in the building.” Grace was calling back
The line crackled. Then a third voice joined the call. Synthetic. Perfectly calm. ” Grace said
“Grace, the system has a ghost. It just executed a zero-value transaction with a command string inside.”