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I answer truthfully. The old woman nods. "That's how you know. They feed on fear and desperation. If you can keep control of yourself and not show fear, they won't be as attracted to you." I nod, taking in the information. "Okay. That's helpful. Thank you. You said they feed on weakened souls. What makes a weakened soul?" "Anyone who arrives here." My mouth goes dry. So that includes Alec. Have the wisps already gotten him? Could I be too late?

Chemical conditioning. Then she found something that made her stop breathing. A handwritten note clipped to her file. Subject Twelve shows promise but maintains emotional attachments. Specifically to Subject Four. Recommend separation to complete conditioning. Below that, another note in different handwriting. Subject Four terminated. Subject Twelve's conditioning resumed. "Subject Four," Celeste whispered. "Who was Subject Four?" Her brother took the file. Searched through it. Found the roster. Ran his finger down the list. "Here. Subject Four. Enrolled age seven." He went quiet. "Real name: James Veritas."

The other was a tall man with the permanent scowl of someone who'd once been a bureaucrat and now had to carry a gun. The woman introduced herself as Marta Sánchez, formerly Control Acquisition Division. The man, DeWitt, didn’t give a first name. Marta pulled a tarp off a metal cart. What lay beneath looked like a human brain, roughly basketball-sized, mounted on a mess of tentacles and chitinous limbs. It had no eyes, but ridges across its central mass pulsed faintly, as if registering light. "Meet the enemy," Marta said. "This is a dead one. We think. Don’t poke it."

“Say you understand me. Just once. Say you see it.” Jason’s throat tightened, but he refused to answer. The Nexus Core pulsed violently. The hum built to a painful roar, shaking dust loose from the ceiling. Then… A voice. It wasn’t Andrew’s. It wasn’t human. It crawled into their minds like an icy current, cold, flat, perfect. “Designation: Chimera. Objective: Order. Process: Assimilation.” Leah’s hand shot to her belt. She yanked free a palm-sized EMP charge, her voice shaking with urgency. “It’s awake! Jason, we have to cut him off. Andrew’s still the link! Sever him, and we might keep it from fully crossing over!”

My throat tightened as I clicked a video file labeled: Prototype 7. The footage flickered to life. Maria sat behind a sleek desk, her expression calm and deliberate. “The subject Scarlett Maria Devereux exhibits strong adaptive instincts, emotional volatility, and high persuasion thresholds. Predicted outcome: ideal candidate for control transfer.” Control transfer. I scrolled to the next document a contract signed under Damien Cole’s name, dated before Maria’s death. Subject assigned: Scarlett M. Devereux. Objective: integrate emotional dependency and ensure asset compliance. I couldn’t breathe.

File origin: internal lab archive. Extraction date: three days ago. Uploaded from Zurich IP cluster. Interesting. Why upload now? Why not earlier? Unless the footage wasn’t previously accessible. Unless someone had secured it. Or modified it. I slowed the playback to frame-by-frame. 22:46 — Corridor clear. 22:47 — I enter frame. 22:48 — Access panel opened. 22:49 — Code entered. 22:50 — Door opens. 22:58 — Adrian appears at corridor end. Then—

The obsidian mirrors of its eyes didn't reflect the room; they reflected a streaming scroll of violet code. [ANALYZING_THREAT_PATTERN...] [TARGET: ALPHA_01] [WEAKNESS_IDENTIFIED: EMOTIONAL_LATENCY] "He can't hear you, Xander!" I screamed, my fingers flying through a translucent, golden HUD that was flickering with red warning signs. "The Maintainers haven't just possessed him; they’ve moved his consciousness into a Deep-Storage Partition. Everything he is—his loyalty, his memories—it’s all in Read-Only Mode. He’s being piloted by a combat-script that has ten thousand years of predator-data behind it!"

he said coldly, “you won’t live long enough to regret it.” Twelve froze. Kai tugged him back. “Maybe… maybe just let the Alpha handle it, yeah?” Ronan lowered his forehead to Kiera’s. Heat bled from him into her chilled skin. “Look at me,” he murmured. “Just look.” Her eyes flickered. But not at him—through him. A hall of white light. Doors with numbers. A small hand pounding on glass. A voice saying: ‘Subjects Subject 3 and Twelve—begin synchronization.’

I opened the next document, another fragment, this one tagged Incident Report, RDM-47B. It contained only a few sentences: “During containment, subject displayed uncontrollable electromagnetic discharge. Room temperature dropped by 15 degrees within seconds. When conscious, subject described recurring visions of a burning field and a girl made of gold. Council observer recommends continued sedation until resonance levels stabilise.” I felt the blood drain from my face. The “burning field,” the “girl made of gold.” Rain. That was Rain. I exhaled slowly, steadying myself. The laptop hummed quietly, a low electronic heartbeat in the silence.

> Ava (eyebrow raised): “Are we bringing him?” Lucien answered for her. > Lucien: “I go where she goes.” > Sera: “Then stay ahead of me.” 6:45 a.m. – Hidden Surveillance Room A shadowed figure stood in front of nine angled monitors. Elise. Again. This time not broadcasting. Watching. On one screen Lucien and Sera kissing. On another Santiago’s node crumbling. On a third a file decrypting slowly: SANCTUARY_ANNOTATION_AQ1 She leaned in.