📘 CHAPTER 10 — SMALL TRACES

Author’s Note – Chapter 10
Sometimes, existence doesn’t need to be confirmed by data.
It just needs someone to respond.
This chapter isn’t about victory.
It’s about something very small:
when a human being is reconnected to the world, even if only through an open door.
The system doesn’t object.
It simply observes.
And in an optimized world,
even such a small deviation is enough to shift the balance.
The remaining question is:who will be the system’s next target?
— me