Ria had never bothered looking into the program that the Psyker had given her. She had simply accepted the gift from the man during her meeting with him in Esocline Federation and had completely forgotten about it since then. After all, she had been completely engrossed in and consumed by the creation of her company and her hunting of infected worlds. She had been far too busy to care about anything else.
The neural inlay in her mind had stored the program that had taken root in the neurons. Unbeknownst to her, it was in a passive state of surveillance.
Of the state of her mind.
Ordinarily, a stored program couldn't run unless the user actively ran it, but biotechnological information technology didn't work the same way as silicon-based electronics or photonics or non-organic forms of information processing.
Neurons were alive, and the information that was integrated across their neural pathways was the building blocks of consciousness.
