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One evening, Elara needed to send a message to a friend in the distant, walled gardens of the Southern Server. The path was crawling with "Packet Sniffers"—the Barons' hounds that could smell a secret from a mile away. She took out her PIA key and turned it.

Immediately, a shimmering, opaque cloak draped over her digital form. To the world, Elara had vanished. In her place was a non-descript shadow that appeared to be in ten different places at once—Paris, Tokyo, New York, and Sydney—all in the blink of an eye. The Packet Sniffers growled in frustration, their noses hitting a wall of unbreakable encryption that looked to them like a chaotic, beautiful storm of noise. //www.privateinternetaccess.com

Underneath the cloak, Elara walked through a secure, private tunnel that PIA had carved through the bedrock of the Ether. It was a fast, unobstructed path where the Barons’ tolls and trackers couldn't reach. She reached the Southern Server, delivered her message, and slipped back into the bustling crowds of the Ether, her identity as untraceable as a whisper in a gale. One evening, Elara needed to send a message