MY CRUEL PROTECTOR
Six months is a lifetime when you live at the speed of light.
In the half-year since the "Reset," I had effectively restructured the reality of the eastern hemisphere. Moscow was no longer a city; it was a motherboard. The Kremlin’s ancient stone was now interlaced with pulsing fiber-optics, a physical manifestation of my own nervous system. I sat upon the Glass Throne, the Sovereign’s cold, violet logic flowing through me like a constant tide. I had ended two civil wars, crashed three black-market syndicates, and stabilized the global economy by simply removing the human variable.