Morning came quietly but not softly, the kind of morning that looked normal on the outside but carried weight underneath. The building was already active again, screens were on, systems were running, and the teams had returned to their stations like nothing had happened, but everyone knew something had changed.The control room was alive again, not in panic, not in fear, but in focus, every analyst was back at work, checking systems, reviewing logs, watching movements, nothing was left unattended.Marcus was already there, standing near the main screen, his posture was calm but alert, his eyes moving across the data slowly, taking in every detail, he had not rushed into the day, he had stepped into it with purpose.A few steps away, Adrian stood by another console, reviewing reports that came in overnight, his face was serious, controlled, no emotion on the surface, but something inside him had not settled from the day before.They had not spoken much since then. Not because they cou
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