Finishing "Verge" Outline

I'm super late on this, so I'm spending the next few hours on it. A brief snippet for your amusement:

6. Time slows almost to a stop. Zylo still seems capable of conversing with his Body, and uses that to try to get a handle on the situation while the bullet hovers inches from his face. Short answer: the same cybernetics that Zylo has been using to interact with his body and the Ultranet are now in emergency overdrive, allowing him to think at electronic speed.

7. But thinking is not the same as moving-- the fastest he could move would not be fast enough. Zylo is reminded, and we learn, that human speech is no longer a purely physical process: since anyone or anything worth talking to has electronic communicators, speech has become more like chat, complete with elaborate emoticons and other extra features. This gives Zylo a ray of hope: he can't escape the bullet, but maybe he can talk to something that can save him...