“The moment you act without being told, you reveal who you are.”
-Michel Foucault-
Chapter 134: First Ripple
The city exhaled like it had done nothing wrong, like it had no fault in what was going on.
And yet, Dominique knew it had.
She stood in the operations room, hands lightly resting on the edge of the console, eyes scanning the streams of jade and amber numbers. Dock-07 had reacted exactly as she had anticipated. Not because she forced it. Not because she pressed the right buttons. But because someone had taken the bait, because of human nature… somebody always takes the bait she puts out.
Not a casual operator. Not a distracted mid-level coordinator. Someone with enough authority to make decisions without prompting. And they had, finally, a bigger fish than Ellis 2.0. She was s
