"You're not the one I was waiting for," she said, her voice a synth-wave melody. "But you'll have to do. I am Juny. And I am incomplete."

The message arrived as a static‑filled whisper in Juny’s neural interface:

Juny withdrew her hand, breath ragged, the Echo’s light dimming. The figure in the hood stepped forward, revealing a face she recognized: , the leader of the “Null” movement, the group that had been hunting the Full for years.