The Eye of Minds

Michael is agog at the sight of the Black and Blue, a famed club for the VirtNet rich and famous. Michael, Sarah, and Bryson ponder how to access Ronika, as they are too young to enter the club and search for her. They plan to hack their way into the club until Sarah comes up with the idea to hack into the bouncers’ digital memory, then blackmail their way past the bouncers by threatening to send details to their family and friends.

Inside the club, everyone has coded themselves to look “perfect,” which Michael finds uninteresting compared to Sarah’s “dorky” charm. The three friends split up to search for Ronika, but Michael grows uneasy when he can no longer locate his friends. 

Suddenly, he drops through the floor and finds himself with his friends in a formal room. Ronika enters and demands to know why they broke into her club. When they admit that they were sent by Cutter and are seeking information about Kaine, Bryson is struck by a sudden, intense headache, signifying that Kaine is close. Ronika is unsurprised by the news.