Zurich – Circle of Smoke HQTime Since SHEMA Activation: 3 Days, 9 HoursStatus: Memory Anchor Flare DetectedIt began with a tremor. A faint flicker across Ember’s personal resonance field, barely enough to register.But Skov caught it. She froze, staring at the monitor.“Her core anchor is… trying to reform itself.”Frank leaned in. “That’s impossible. SHEMA wipes clean.”Ella whispered, “Unless something inside her is choosing to remember anyway.”Legacy didn’t speak. She was already running for the Garden.The GardenEmber stood barefoot in the grass. The wind braided itself through her curls. She had her hands out, palms up, eyes closed. Legacy approached slowly.“You feel it, don’t you?”Ember nodded. “I don’t know what it is.”“It’s her,” Legacy said softly.“Who?”Legacy’s eyes filled.“The woman who made the world feel again.The one who let you forget, so you could live.Amari.”Ember opened her eyes. And for the briefest instant… They flickered violet.Inside the Drift – Fr

Zurich – Circle of Smoke HQStatus: Perimeter SecuredInternal Threat: UndetectedLegacy stood alone in the Garden. It was raining. She didn’t remember why she’d come there.Didn’t remember what day it was. Just the sensation of water on her skin, and a strange word ringing in her ears.“Echofract.”She whispered it, again and again. And didn’t know why.Earlier That DaySkov noticed the first sign. Legacy skipped a morning briefing, unusual, but not alarming.Then she forgot an access code she’d hardwired into her Drift interface for ten years.Ella brought her tea, sat beside her, and smiled gently.“You all right?” Legacy stared at her for a full ten seconds.Then said softly: “Have we met before?”Ella dropped the mug.Medical ScanSkov ran everything: neuro-mapping, resonance calibration, pulse sync. All normal.Except for one anomaly.“A shadow,” she said. “Not physical.Not chemical. Cognitive drift.”Zora squinted at the scan.“You mean she’s thinking in someone else’s pattern

Veil Substation Nox Theta – Echo Containment CoreSubject: Legacy M. OseiStatus: Mid-stage Overwrite (64%)Time Remaining: 7 minutes before full neural syncEmber knelt on the cold echo-stone floor. Legacy stood before her, eyes flickering between recognition and void. Her voice cracked:“I remember the garden. I remember rain.But now… the words don’t fit anymore.” Behind them, the Veil’s overwrite loop ticked louder.Pulsing like a drumbeat counting down her erasure. Ember reached out.“You’re still in there. I know it.” Legacy’s jaw clenched.“I don’t know if I want to be anymore.”Zurich – Skov and Zora ReactThe Circle traced Ember’s signal. Zora clenched her fist.“She’s inside the Containment Core. With Legacy.”Skov was pale. “The overwrite process is accelerating. The Veil’s burning through identity layers like rot.”Ella over comm: “We can’t pull her out now. If we interrupt the sequence mid-loop, Legacy dies.”Frank added, “So we wait?”Zora whispered:“No.We trust that E

Zurich – Circle of Smoke HQ Five Days After Zora Reclaimed Her Echo Status: Calm Too CalmEmber smiled in the morning sun. She watched the wind shift the leaves in the Drift Garden.She laughed when Ravi dropped his breakfast tray. She told Skov his new glasses made him look like a stern librarian. She was at peace. And that’s what terrified Legacy.Because Ember hadn’t laughed, truly laughed, since she remembered Amari. Something was wrong.Legacy saw it in her eyes. That slight softness. That almost-glow.That peace Ember only had when she was forgetting something important.The ShiftSkov ran the first scan out of caution. What he found chilled him.“There’s a… decay pattern in her echo stream.”Zora leaned in. “Decay?”Skov nodded. “Selective resonance degradation. But not random. The strongest echoes, the joyful ones, are degrading.”Ella whispered: “She’s forgetting her reasons to fight.”Frank: “Can we stop it?” Skov looked down. “Not unless we can find the injection vector.”L

Zurich – Circle of Smoke HQSubject Recovered: Sera ThalenDesignation: Former Veil Architect / Drift Exile / Classified Risk Tier A+Skov sat in silence. The envelope still in his hand. The name on the paper Sera burned like an echo that never faded.Legacy stood across from him.“You never told us you had a sister.”Skov nodded slowly. “She was the first one to teach me how to code resonance. She understood emotions…and wanted to destroy them from the inside out.”Ella frowned. “You mean she joined the Veil?”Skov’s voice cracked. “No.She helped build it.”The Truth About Sera She was a resonance genius.While Skov designed drift interpretation, Sera engineered echo balance inversion—the very technology the Veil would later weaponize.But she vanished five years ago during the Witness-Revision standoff.Presumed dead. Until now.Because her voice calm, unhurried arrived through the Drift:“You’ve remembered me, little brother.Good.I’m ready to talk.”The LocationCoordinates embe