Chapter 42
CHAPTER 42: THE CITY THAT THINKS ITSELF The first sign that something had fully changed was not violence, not collapse, and not even disruption. It was coordination without request. Across three major districts, supply chains adjusted themselves overnight, routes rerouted, shortages redistributed, prices stabilized without central approval. At first, it looked like coincidence. Then efficiency. Then something harder to explain. Isabella stood in the war room long before sunrise, watching the live system update itself in real time. No alerts. No commands. No intervention. Just movement, quiet, continuous, intelligent movement spreading across the map like breath. The city was no longer reacting to decisions made within it. It was making decisions about itself. And worse than that, it was
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