His apartment was already stripped. The Bureau was efficient. Only one thing remained: a single, outdated physical letter on his magnetic table. No sender ID. Just a name: Kaelen Voss.
The screen in Marcus’s neural-link flickered, displaying the cold, official seal of the Federal Bio-Augmentation Bureau. xpt trainer
Kaelen’s mind wasn't just broken. It was a supernova of fear. Marcus found himself standing on the bridge of the quantum-freighter, alarms blaring, the viewscreen a blinding white. A hundred Kaelens ran past him, each one screaming a different terror: "The radiation spike!" "We're going to burn!" "I made a mistake!" "I killed them all!" His apartment was already stripped
He knelt in front of Kaelen, ignoring the nurses' worried glances. He didn't plug into the neural-link. He spoke, raw voice to raw silence. No sender ID