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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Falkus" data-source="post: 4391342" data-attributes="member: 22634">"Well, you see," Z said, as she worked on the computer. "When a Faerie is born, he or she is linked to some element or natural force. Fire, water, nature, forests, etc. I was born just over twenty years ago. My element turned out to be electricity, and computers in specific, almost certainly linked to the computer revolution on Earth."She shrugged. "There was friction between me and the others, especially since my birth position resulted in me being a very high ranking member of the Faerie Court. Especially Titania. I wanted to modernize the court, I saw no reason to hold onto the archaic principles that we'd been following for thousands of years, I wanted us to adapt and use the best that humanity had to offer, take a serious look at what you humans had made, instead of simply dismissing human technology and ideals out of hand. The Faerie Court is a very traditional place, proponents of change aren't welcome. Eventually, Titania banished me from the court and to Earth.""I found myself in New York. It was a bad time for me, leaving hand to mouth, until I managed to get work as a freelance hacker. That lasted about a year. Eventually I cracked into OSIRS, got captured by Harland and wound up getting a job. And here I am today."The residence appeared to be fairly secure, after examining the schematics that Z shot over to Cade's PDA. There were three cameras at each side of the house, as well as several inside, though not in the bedrooms. Motion detectors were on the lawn, but the weather would be making them inoperative. Alarm systems on every door and window. A safe room in the basement that could be accessed by a trap door from the study. Four Secret Service agents were patrolling the house and the grounds, assigned in light of the recent elevated terrorist threat level in Chicago. There were alert systems that, in the event of an emergency, would have half of CPD and a battalion of marines on the lawn within ten minutes. All in all, it would be very difficult for anything human to penetrate the security.Cade did notice one flaw, however. If power went down in the security room, it could take over three minutes to restore full security functionality after the power was back up.</blockquote>

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