The thermal camera cost Maya three months of freelance work, but it showed what the naked eye couldn't: heat signatures through windowless walls. She adjusted the lens on the roof across from Building 7, watching orange and red blooms pulse behind the concrete. "Getting anything?" Her editor's voice crackled through the earpiece. "Eighteen signatures. Ground … Continue reading The Visibility Report
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The Vault
I. The shuttle pulled out at 5:15 AM, same as every morning. Elara pressed her forehead against the window, felt the glass vibrate with the engine's rumble, cold even through the humidity. The strip mall slid past—the grocery with its flickering sign casting blue-white pulses across the empty parking lot, the clinic with the EXIM … Continue reading The Vault
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