Three weeks had passed since the rooftop battle at the Spire, and the world had shifted beneath them.
The oversight hearings had concluded with a damning report that sent shockwaves through the intelligence community. The agency's leadership had been purged, its black sites shuttered, its funding frozen. The news cycle had moved on to the next scandal, but the wounds left by Project Eidolon were still raw, still bleeding beneath the surface of everyday life. The twelve subjects who had been located were in federal custody, receiving treatment, their implants monitored by a team of neurologists who were only beginning to understand the technology they were dealing with. The three who had been freed by the fragment—Wren, Corvin, and Veyra—had chosen to stay with the team, their skills and k
