The Abandoned Luna's Return
"It’s a **Format-All**. Aethelgard has found a new 'Investor'—a hive-mind intelligence from the Andromeda Sector. The hive-mind doesn't want 'Individuals.' They want 'Raw Data.' When that clock hits zero, every soul in this city, and every 'Original' in the Cloud, will be merged into a single, mindless consciousness. We won't be 'Deleted.' We’ll be **Re-Purposed**."
"We have to fight them," I said, my hand tightening on the iron pipe.
"With what?" Dr. Vance laughed, a hollow, bitter sound. "You're a physical girl in a world owned by a god-tier AI. Your 'Red Blood' is just a chemical imbalance here. Your 'Shadow King' is just a sequence of pixels."
"I'm more than that," Silas said, stepping f