V16: sector 16, virtual layer. G21: grid coordinate, sublevel 21. Q2: quarter two fiscal. Cash: the transaction type.
Zara reached for her jacket. The refinery hummed around her, oblivious. Somewhere in the forgotten sublevels, a woman had been frozen for six months, turned into a line of code, waiting for someone to read between the digits.
Her coffee mug stopped halfway to her lips.