Lost & found: A Sister Reclaimed
Finding order in the chaos he'd created, extracting signal from noise through pattern recognition he apparently hadn't anticipated I possessed.
I turned slowly in place, taking in the entire room again with fresh perspective.
Every sensor tracking my movements.
Every light creating visual instability.
Every system output trying to overwhelm my processing capacity.
"You didn't remove control," I said quietly, the realization crystallizing. "You just made it harder to see."
Made the control structures invisible beneath layers of apparent chaos.
Hale's voice dropped slightly, taking on a different quality. "And yet you're still standing."
Not collapsed, not begging for it to stop, not showing a