The crystal egg sat on Eleanor's console – a seemingly innocuous artifact that was anything but simple. Carved from a rare quantum-responsive crystalline matrix, it was the lynchpin of her most sophisticated communication disruption system.
"Quantum entanglement is never truly random," Eleanor murmured to Vincent, who watched with predatory intensity. Her fingers moved across the interface, each touch creating cascading probability waves that rippled through Denise's carefully constructed communication networks.
The egg began to pulse – not with light, but with a frequency that existed between states of detection. It was a quantum communication disruptor designed specifically to exploit the microscopic fractures Eleanor had identified in Denise's network infrastructure.