Right after the divorce, two things about Seraphine had started circling around in Voren's mind in a way that refused to quiet down, because no matter how many times he replayed everything he had seen and heard, the pieces never seemed to settle into a picture that made any sense to him at all.
The first thing that had struck him was the realization that Seraphine possessed the kind of cyber intelligence that people spent entire lifetimes chasing and never quite reaching, the type of sharp, intricate brilliance that allowed her to maneuver through digital systems as though they were nothing more than familiar hallways in a house she had lived in for years.
The second thing had followed immediately after that realization, and it had only made everything more confusing because it turned out that she was also a software developer whose work carried a level of sophistication that left experienced engineers speechless.
