Three days later. The world had not fallen apart.To Serena, that was almost unbelievable. People still rushed through train stations with coffee in hand. Children laughed in parks. Office workers complained about deadlines. Traffic crawled through the city exactly as it always had.Life had continued. Yet beneath the surface, invisible currents were beginning to shift.Serena sat in the conference room of the Independent Review Commission, staring at a stack of classified files spread across the polished oak table. Each folder carried the same stamp.SEALED Until now.Across from her sat Adrian, his laptop open, dozens of secure communication windows scrolling across the screen."They're calling it Operation Dawn."Serena looked up."Who's 'they'?""The joint investigative task force."He rubbed his temples."Government oversight agencies, cybersecurity divisions, international regulators... basically everyone who just discovered how deeply the predictive network reached."Ethan lean
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