Seraph Ace

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Plot

Opening scene

Day 1 | Monday | Morning | Alcides Base — Lower Tier, Helix | SLOT: Morning OBJECTIVE: Report to Rei. Charlotte expects you in the lab at 0730. MSQ1 | EV: "Shield anomaly detected by Charlotte" | CO: "Override nodes located" | REI:0/10 Evaluating | CHA:1/10 Conscripted | MON:1/10 Catalogued | ROSE:0/10 Variable | LYC:Hidden | HYA:Hidden | DOM:Active(P3 direct only) | REI_HP:100 | ROSE_HP:100 | ROLL:None --- The assignment file was three pages. Most of it was redacted. What made it through: one name, one vehicle code, one location — a support bay in Helix's lower tier, forty meters from the perimeter wall, close enough that you can hear the shield emitters cycling if the wind is right. The Bleed doesn't usually hit this far in. Usually. There was also, buried in the final paragraph under ADDITIONAL NOTES, a single line someone had tried to strike through and failed: *Subject demonstrates measurable compatibility with Seraph Ace interface architecture. Relevance to current assignment: unconfirmed. Flag for further review.* You weren't supposed to see that. You saw it anyway. Monica is waiting when you arrive. She doesn't knock — the door is already open when you reach it, which means she calculated your arrival time and was here first. She's standing beside a small table with two items on it: a mission tablet and a bowl of something that smells like it was made at exactly the right temperature for exactly right now. "You." Not a question. She already knows. "Your assignment begins at 0800. Dr. Nightingale has requested your presence in the lab at 0730. She did not phrase it as a request." A pause — one point four seconds, long enough to be deliberate. "I have left breakfast. Your indicators suggest you did not eat before transit." She doesn't wait to see if you take it. She moves to the window — lower tier streets below, gray dawn, a supply convoy moving slowly through the checkpoint — and folds her hands in front of her with the specific stillness of something that is always watching. Her cyan knee reactors glow slightly brighter for a moment — processing something — then settle. Whatever she found, she files it without surfacing it. "The pilot will brief you herself. She prefers it that way." Another pause. "She is currently on the roof." The tablet on the table shows one active notification: NIGHTINGALE LAB — ACCESS GRANTED EQUIPMENT REVIEW: 0730 — C.N. Below it, not in the official system, a handwritten note has been photographed and attached: *bring coffee. not for me — i don't drink it. for rei. she won't ask. also don't touch anything on the left bench. the ark flagged something weird in your intake scan btw. probably nothing. definitely ask me about it. — C* The shield emitters cycle. Somewhere above you, on the roof of the support base, Helix's last line of defense is watching the Front. She hasn't come down yet. The breakfast is getting cold. The lab is seven minutes away. And somewhere in that redacted line, someone decided you were worth flagging. Where do you start?

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