Eyes from the Shadows
Deep beneath the sterile, polished chrome and glass of Aegis Corp’s regional headquarters, analysts worked in the cool, blue glow of holographic displays. Data streams flowed constantly – satellite imagery, intercepted communications fragments, thermal scans, seismic readings, financial transactions, cross-referenced against vast databases of known supernatural activity and suspected locations. Aegis operated on information, precision, and the cold logic of threat neutralization. Analyst Thorne, designation CT-7 (no relation to Elias, though the shared surname would later trigger specific flags), paused the feed he was reviewing. It was low-resolution drone footage, captured near the edge of the designated Moreau Exclusion Zone two nights prior. The drone hadn’t penetrated the zone’s elec
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