Even if Brodski or Rowan had had the presence of mind to insist that someone stay in the lab and keep an eye on Jason through the broken window partition, it might not have made any difference simply because this time when the ants went into action, there was nothing to see. Thanks to a combination of hardware and software damage, the relatively minor frills had been the first to go. The motion of the ants generated no perceptible signs at all. No silvery lines of force, no barely-visible fog-colored shapes gliding along the floor like ghostly worms, not even a spot or two of gray static.

Actually, that wasn't quite true. Someone with quick wits and exceptional powers of observation, Brodski maybe, or Kay-Em for sure, might have detected a rippling motion in the air like a heat shimmer. This was, in fact, produced by the presence of an exceptionally dense concentration of nano-ants. The combined friction of their movements literally heated the air.

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Jason X pages 336-337