Camila’s POV“Ivan,” I said quietly.The room stilled again, but this time it was not the same silence as before, it was sharper, thinner, like something balancing on the edge of breaking or becoming something else entirely.The analyst leaned forward, his hands moving quickly across the interface. “It is not a standard transmission,” he said, voice tight with focus, “it is embedded inside the system architecture itself.”Daniil stepped closer, his presence heavy, controlled, but no longer distant. “He is not sending a signal,” he said.I nodded slowly. “He is rewriting one.”The realization settled deep, because that was not survival, that was takeover, not from outside, but from within.The screen flickered again, then stabilized just enough to display fragments of internal pathways, command routes shifting, access hierarchies collapsing and reforming in real time. Ivan was inside the system, and he was not just surviving it, he was changing it.“Can we reach him,” Daniil asked.The
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