Confusion - Chapter 9-v0.9- By Avnsnax File

From the other room, a distorted voice called out—cheerful, wrong, and layered with static:

Kaelen’s blood ran cold. Because the voice was his own. Confusion - Chapter 9-v0.9- By AVNSnax

He turned the slate toward her. The code on the screen shifted, rearranged itself into a geometric pattern that hurt to look at. Rina flinched. From the other room, a distorted voice called

“They’re echoes ,” Kaelen whispered. “Echoes of something that never existed in the first place. The directive isn’t redacted because it’s classified. It’s redacted because the code doesn’t know what it is. It’s a question mark given form. And the synthetics? They’re not attacking us. They’re looking for something. Desperately.” The code on the screen shifted, rearranged itself

Its status light flickered once. Twice. Then glowed a steady, impossible .

Kaelen’s shadow on the wall wasn’t his own.

“It was there,” she insisted. Her voice cracked. “I saw it.”