The ping had changed everything.It was a low-frequency signal that repeated every seventeen minutes. Faint, steady, and utterly alien.Adrian and Lena spent hours decoding its rhythm. Eve just sat there, eyes closed, like she could hear it in her bloodstream."It’s not from Earth," Lena confirmed. "We triangulated it. It’s coming from a satellite we never launched."Adrian turned to Eve. "You said they’re not human. Is this... them?"Eve nodded, but her voice was fragile. "Third wave. Not clones. Not soldiers. Not even artificial.""Then what?"She looked up, and for a moment, I could swear her pupils shimmered. "They’re the architects."We couldn’t run. Not anymore. If Lucien had been a storm, and Kael the wildfire, then this... this was tectonic. The kind of shift that didn’t just destroy cities—it erased timelines."We need to know who they are," Adrian said, pacing. "What they want.""And how far they’ve infiltrated," Wren added. "Because if Eve’s visions are true... they’ve alre
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