DeathWeb (Fox Meridian Book 3) by Niall Teasdale

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    ‘They’re going to break in and mess this up as soon as we’re gone, aren’t they?’ Terri said.
    ‘No,’ Fox replied. A second later, on the camera feed, the trails from four missiles could be seen lancing out in the direction of the truck. ‘That should discourage them.’
    ‘What’s left of them anyway,’ Jackson said.
     

Part Two: The Future of Murder
    New York Metro, 20 th June 2060.
    Fox sat in a room filled with monitors and sensor data. The screens showed the feeds from cameras all over the house; they floated, rearranging themselves in space as Fox decided to look somewhere else. She had multispectral views of every room in the house, the roof, and the outside walls. She had feeds from all the security monitor systems giving times for last entry and exit through both doors, along with environmental data and a schematic map showing the location of everyone in the building.
    Right now, that was her since she had waited until Marie had gone out running before checking out the virtual room the house’s security systems fed into. Using the security feeds was something Fox planned to do only when she really needed to, but checking it out when no one was around seemed like a good idea.
    ‘Everything meets your requirements?’ Belle appeared, all prim and proper, with her hands clasped before her and her heels together.
    Before Fox could answer, Kit appeared in her own more proper outfit and glasses, stood in precisely the same posture, and said, ‘Everything appears to be adequate.’
    Fox tried to keep the smirk off her virtual face. ‘It seems quite complete, Belle. Thank you. Have you two sorted out this calendar synchronisation thing?’
    ‘We have,’ Belle said. ‘Kit has been most accommodating. The fact that we are both MarTech AIs obviously helps. It has been less trivial to produce a reasonable policy for Miss Shaftsbury. She has a haphazard view of maintaining her social data.’
    ‘She’s young, and she’ll likely rearrange things when she starts working. Have you access to Sam’s schedule?’
    ‘Yes. I have constructed an aggregate calendar accessible by all of you, which shows when you can expect to be alone, or to be able to find one of the others. However, it currently says that Miss Shaftsbury should be in when, in fact, she has gone out.’
    ‘You’ll need to expect changes in plan. Doesn’t Marie use that LifeFit thing? I think if you monitored that, you’d be able to follow her plans for running and expected time to return.’
    Belle raised an eyebrow and then turned, raising a hand in an unnecessary gesture to open a new display window. This one showed a local street map and an indicator showing Marie’s current position. ‘Thank you, Fox, I can do that and follow her. And she will be re-entering the house approximately…’
    On one of the displays, there was movement and Fox more or less automatically pulled the screen forward to see Marie bouncing into her lounge in very short shorts and a cropped athletic top. Before Fox could think to push the display away, she got to see Marie peeling off her top as she headed for the bathroom. And then there was movement on the basement bathroom display which Fox studiously ignored.
    ‘And this is why I don’t want to start coming in here unless I need to,’ Fox said. ‘I could turn into a real voyeur.’
    ‘You have seen Marie naked before,’ Kit pointed out. ‘Quite close up, in fact.’
    ‘It’s not quite the same when I’m spying on her through the house sensors. It’s probably a human thing, don’t worry about it.’ Closing her eyes, Fox dropped out of the virtual world and into the real one. Belle and Kit were both standing over her when she looked up.
    ‘I’m receiving data on the delegates registering for the conference,’ Belle said. ‘Registration has now opened for those arriving early. I believe that you are already registered as part of the MarTech contingent.’
    ‘She is,’