Kal's concern rang true but not as much as he'd think. Sure, a neurorunner could probably trace the signals through Val's wireless port but they'd need to get past her defenses first and she'd notice if they tried. Best case scenario, he was distracted and only really glanced at Valerie's signal before being distracted again by porn or something. Worst case scenario, he was a lot more cunning and skilled than Valerie and had already figured her out and mined the building's system with all sorts of nasties that'd pop if she tried to activate the nodes were they dwelled. Mid-case scenario? They had opened up the new control node Valerie had left in the system and were trying to save their Neurodeck from her virus as it deleted the core programs responsible for running the Neurodeck.<br/><br/>With a few thoughts and some resource allocating Valerie spread more watcher programs to nodes she had already seized control of. Neither entrances in her control had seen any use yet, but it'd be best if she stayed alert. As powerful as Valerie was in Neurospace, she was extremely vulnerable in meatspace. She'd have trouble defending herself from a single person, let alone a group. With her body, she'd have trouble pushing a persistent child or dog away. It would be impossible for her to physically match an adult trained by the Dreg's hard life.<br/><br/>Still, Valerie forced her thoughts back to the mission and began her infiltration of the elevator nodes. Not that Kal or Wombat were likely to use them but they'd made a good distraction if things went wrong. After that, she simply had to make her way up. The joys of cyberwarfare, just one node after the other.<i>"The two of you are taking your sweet time, Blue. They haven't discovered that I'm in their system yet, and I'm quite good at hiding my tracks but... It'll only take them trying to access a data node I'm currently using."</i><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>