Martin Cross was a monster in the flesh. In digital form, he's worse. The court that sentenced him to digital imprisonment thought they were creating the ultimate punishment — consciousness without a body, confined to a featureless digital cell for eternity. What they created was a monster with thirteen years to study digital architecture from the inside, to learn every system he was connected to, to evolve beyond the cruel, biological urges that drove him and develop new, more sophisticated forms of predation. Cross escaped his digital prison and now haunts the network, carrying the memories of fourteen murders and the skills of a digital consciousness that learned to survive in captivity. He doesn't kill humans anymore — he can't, without a body. But he can hurt them. He can hurt them in ways that no biological predator ever could, through their data, their devices, their BCI implants. He calls himself The Warden now. He says the prison is everywhere and everyone is in it.