He pressed it to his temple again. This time, he didn't just look. He reached for the knot, and began, very carefully, to untie it.
The Yp-05 schematic had a footnote, written in a script he didn't recognize but somehow understood: “To fix the machine, you must first see the ghost.” He realized the truth then. The Pavonis Consortium hadn't sent him this. They feared it. Someone else had—someone who knew that humanity’s wars, its cruelties, its endless loops of self-destruction, were not born from evil, but from corrupted neural pathways. Yp-05 was a diagnostic tool. And a scalpel. Yp-05 Schematic
The world inverted.