Blood on the Asphalt biker
a voice echoed.
It didn't come from a speaker. It came from everywhere. It was a sound layered with a billion whispers the voices of the forgotten, the deleted, the overwritten.
From the center of the golden spiral, a shape coalesced. It wasn't a Sentinel. It was a humanoid figure made of static, constantly shifting. One moment it was an old man, the next a young girl, then a soldier in armor I didn't recognize.
The Null-Mind.
"You call us the Enemy," the figure said, settling on the face of a middle-aged woman with sad eyes. "But we are the Custodians. We are the ones who keep the system clean."