Title: Bound by Shadows
"The emergency broadcast states that Julian Christ has officially fled into the lawless badlands after murdering a corporate bail officer," Gerald declared.
Laura stood perfectly still on the windswept rooftop helipad, the heavy data key containing the remnants of his deleted history resting inside her palm. The absolute finality of his transformation into Director Vanguard was now irrevocably locked into the central database.
"He chose physical exile over the inevitability of the labor sectors," Laura observed, her coat billowing wildly against the freezing high-altitude air currents.
"A highly predictable path for an individual incapable of calculating structural consequences," Gerald replied, his golden optics glowing in the pitch darkness.
"The municipal en
