He reached for his own hat. "Aspen? What happened to you?"

The windows in his apartment shattered. Outside, every Windows 11 device in the city screamed the same distorted bray. Daniel understood then: the update wasn't a shield. It was a siren to call something ancient through the digital shade.

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