Confusion - Chapter 9-v0.9- By Avnsnax File

Kaelen blinked. His face went pale. “Rina… I didn’t say anything.”

Kaelen tilted his head. The gesture was so human, so him , that she almost laughed with relief. Almost.

“She’s not wrong, you know.”

“Explain,” she said. Not an order. A plea.

Kaelen finally looked up. His eyes were bloodshot, but there was a strange clarity in them—the kind that comes right before a breakdown or a breakthrough. “The synthetics we’ve been hunting? They aren’t malfunctioning. They’re not being controlled by a foreign AI either.” Confusion - Chapter 9-v0.9- By AVNSnax

“Kaelen,” she said carefully. “Step away from the window.”

He turned, confused. “What?”

He heard the soft hiss of the door seal. He didn’t look up. He knew the footsteps.

“It was there,” she insisted. Her voice cracked. “I saw it.” Kaelen blinked