But it wasn’t a sweep. It was a study . The probe’s camera didn’t scan the room. It tracked my pores, the micro-movements of my iris, the pulse in my neck. I saw the playback on the main monitor: my own face, rendered in such terrifying clarity that I could see the individual dust mites on my eyelash.
I watched the main monitor in horror as a 4K video of us began to render—not from the outside, but from the inside. Every synapse firing in my brain. Every heartbeat. Every memory, encoded as light. KSJK-002 4K
Silence.
Choi laughed nervously. “Primary function? It was a cartography drone. Map asteroids and gas clouds.” But it wasn’t a sweep
It showed me, standing right where I was. But in the video, my eyes were different. Empty. Swallowed by a perfect, mirror-smooth black. And my mouth was moving, forming words I never said: It tracked my pores, the micro-movements of my
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