Layer 7: Reset [Audio] [There's a soft but grating white noise of electronic feedback, not quite static and not quite the shrill whine of interference.
It slinks in under whatever other conversations you're holding, persistant through the night even when headsets are left on bedside tables.
It continues, until it gradually takes on the rhythm of breathing.
And then, gradually, just as your ears accustom to the background noise, it becomes a thin female voice, faint and frantic, a haunted whisper over the network.]