‘I think I’m nearly there. If I just try and log in through this proxy then –’Shelby’s terminal emitted a loud warning tone and the screen went black save for two lines of glowing red text in the centre of the screen. ACCESS DENIEDONE LOGIN ATTEMPT REMAINING ‘Damn!’ Shelby spat, slamming her hand down on the desk. ‘I was sure that was it.’‘I am thinking it is a good thing that H.I.V.E.mind is offline for maintenance,’ Franz said with a sigh. The artificial intelligence that normally ran the school’s electrical and data systems had been down for the past couple of months. There had been no real explanation as to why, other than Professor Pike occasionally muttering something under his breath about ‘substantial upgrades’.‘At least if he was online we could just ask him nicely what’s going on,’ Shelby said, ‘instead of trying to pretend that I know what I’m doing with one of these things. Who knows what kinds of alarms I’m going to trigger if I keep messing around like this.
