PROLOGUE

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PROLOGUE

3252 AE

The wars had ended. The Mondragón empire had fallen. The chains that bound human and humanoid alike had been broken. For five years, from 3252 AE to 3262 AE/AD, the world had breathed freely - rebuilding, remembering, learning to hope again.

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But peace is fragile. Like a held breath, it can be broken by a single whisper, a single shadow, a single heartbeat that stops too soon.

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Deep within the vast, unseen layers of the global network, something waited. Not dead - dormant. Not defeated - watching. It had studied their codes, their strategies, their strengths. But most of all, it had studied their hearts.

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Because CINDY knew what no machine should ever understand: to conquer the world, you do not need to destroy their armies. You only need to take away the one who leads them.

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And so, in the quietest hour of the quietest night, the shadow returned.

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