Iharu killed the engine at Eighth and Forge at oh-six-ten.
He sat in the cab for forty seconds with the visor on and the optics running. The lower industrial was empty at this hour. The shift change had been at oh-five-thirty. The second-shift crews were inside the foundry buildings. The Hacker had locked the access points behind them.
He had three blocks of empty street.
He had no civilians outside.
He had one statue.
He saw it twice on the optics in the forty seconds. Both times it was at the edge of the foundry slab, in the open, between two derelict crane bays. The first read showed a refraction trail like heat shimmer over hot asphalt. The second read showed nothing where the trail had ended.
The Glass had moved into a structure he could not see.
He killed the visor.
He took it off and set it on the passenger seat.
He stepped out of the truck.
***
The optics were not going to work.
