"We stopped translating," Kenji said. "We started teleporting. The code doesn't 'process' the request. It just aligns the bytes and lets them fall into place."
The reply went out. Hours later, another packet arrived: "It worked. I named it blue. It can't come close now. Thank you." There was a cursory line about a neighbor checking in and a promise to call if the shadow returned. No metadata attached, no trace but the saved string in the system log. reflect4 proxy better