What if it's all still real? Ten-year-old Evelyn Acorn's world is thrown upside down when Vendavi, the nanny AI tasked with raising and teaching her, starts to behave very strangely. Everyone knows that there is nothing left outside of Inner. Everyone knows that living alone in a cell is for your own good. So why does Vendavi keep showing her things that aren't real anymore? What's with the crazy raccoons, and why can she fly in simulations even when Vendavi has the realism features cranked all the way up? When Ev decides to find out what, exactly, happens to children when they disappear from the IM network, she finds herself in a world that was supposed to be extinct. Has she finally escaped? Is she finally able to live for herself? Or is this new world just a bigger cage?
