Inside her Geneva bunker, Belinda watched the Eclipse software strip Cassandra apart.

She smashed a monitor.

“This isn’t possible. We locked the patterns.”

Julian replied cautiously, “Project Eclipse reverse-mapped the AI training data. It’s exposing every planted syllable.”

Belinda’s lip curled.

“Shut it down.”

Julian hesitated.

“We can’t. It’s public domain now.”

Belinda stared at him.

“You’re fired.”

She turned and opened her safe.

Inside: one last flash drive.

Labeled “Venom Protocol – Do Not Deploy.”

Her fingers hovered.

Then wrapped around it.

Sophie stepped onto the Tribunal stage — no camera filter, no digital edit.

Just her.

“Cassandra was designed to erase me. But you can’t erase someone who’s...