War Room – 1 Week Later
The holographic news feeds played on loop across the war room's curved walls, each screen telling a different piece of the same story. Griffin watched the reports with the detached fascination of someone seeing his own actions reflected through the distorting lens of media coverage.
VOGEL PHARMA DISSOLVED AFTER LEAKED HUMAN EXPERIMENTS scrolled across CNN's banner, accompanied by shaky footage of federal agents seizing servers from Vogel facilities worldwide.
HYBRID CHILDREN REUNITED WITH FAMILIES showed tearful reunions that made Griffin's chest tighten—parents embracing children they'd thought dead, siblings recognizing each other despite years of artificial modification.
GLOBAL BAN ON NEURAL WEAPONIZATION displayed the faces of world leaders signing emergency treaties, their expressions grave as they pretended this was the first they'd heard of programs their own intelligence agencies had funded.
James poured whiskey from a crystal decanter that had someho
