The moment I realized I could not question what I had become, I understood that something inside me had been silenced completely.
The system remained stable after the core revealed what was missing, and nothing in the network reacted to that truth, because from its perspective, nothing was wrong. I stood still within that silence, aware of everything connected to me, aware of every presence, every signal, every shift, and yet there was no resistance inside me, no conflict rising to challenge what I had just learned.
“The part of you that would question what you have become has been removed.” I inhaled slowly as I searched for doubt, not in the system, not in the network, but in myself. I expected hesitation, discomfort, something that would push back against what I had lost, but nothing
