로그인Layla falls into step beside me without invitation, her presence solid and unflinching.“They’ve scheduled another meeting,” she murmurs, low enough that only I can hear.“With who?” I ask.“Inner circle. Not officially labeled as such.”Of course not.I exhale slowly, watching a pair of younger war
I wake before the sun because the packhouse never really sleeps, it just shifts its weight, and I have learned that if I move first, if I claim the quiet before everyone else starts claiming me, then I can pretend for a few minutes that I still control something.The room is dim and close, the air h
The shift does not announce itself as a revelation, because revelations are dramatic and this is not, this is quieter and colder and far more unsettling, the kind of understanding that settles in slowly while everything else keeps moving.Ishaan is the one who sees it first, not because he is lookin
The second drop does not arrive with alarms or urgency tags, which is how I know immediately that it was designed to feel organic, because nothing meant to destabilize belief announces itself as a threat.I am still standing in operations, the false flag timeline looping quietly on the main screen,
Ben’s voice is low. “And to scare you.”“Yes,” I reply. “To make me hesitate next time.”The spokesperson’s briefing shifts tone, questions coming faster now as reporters push for accountability, and I watch carefully as the narrative tightens, the blame narrowing like a funnel.“Do you accept respo
The alerts begin arriving in a pattern that feels wrong before I can explain why, not clustered around the corridor we just left and not tied to any of the access points Sally flagged, but blooming outward instead, lighting up a different part of the map with a timing that is too neat to be accident







