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The Archive's head of security, a man named Dax who wore the same gray sweater every day, called her into a glass-walled conference room. "Explain this," he said, sliding a tablet toward her. On it was a video feed: a server farm in Nevada. All the status lights on one rack were blinking in a slow, synchronized pattern. Dax zoomed in. The lights weren't random. They were spelling something in Morse code.

She took out her phone. The unknown number that had texted her weeks ago was still there. She typed a reply: What do you want? 0gomvoies

She should have quit. Packed her desk, burned her hard drives, moved to a cabin without Wi-Fi. Instead, Elara did the one thing her training screamed against: she spoke the word aloud. The Archive's head of security, a man named