Chapter 101 The Laboratory Sisters

• The access was neither an intrusion nor a system breach. It was a surrender, a conscious abandonment of resistance, a permission granted to time and memory. Zoe did not force the implant nor activate defenses, did not request permissions or challenge codes. She simply thought of the name she had read again and again in the Sellarés files and let memory unfold on its own, like a river carving its way through ancient rocks.
• Initial prototypes.
• The world went dark. Not with darkness, but with whiteness—a space without edges, without shadow or horizon, a room existing only in records designed to leave no emotional trace, where nothing could touch consciousness directly.