He'd been on the force ten years, enough time to learn the city's small cruelties: petty thefts that escalated, missing-person reports that went nowhere, the way people learned to lock their doors and forget their neighbors. Tonight felt different—an ache he couldn't name. The dispatcher’s voice crackled: "All units, be advised—unknown signal on Channel 7, repeating three tones. Possible interference. Check your sectors."

The rain came in sheets, turning the city's neon into smeared bruises along wet asphalt. At the edge of town, where the high-rises gave way to shuttered warehouses and forgotten sidestreets, Officer Arjun Rao waited with his radio pressed to his shoulder, breath fogging in the cold night.

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"Who's behind it?" Arjun asked. "A person? An algorithm?"