Description
Nathan Cole is no stranger to patterns-he hunts them, decrypts them, exposes them. But when a defunct military server lights up after decades of silence, what he finds isn't malware. It's a message. One word, blinking on an unlisted terminal buried inside a forgotten government vault: BEGIN. Pulled into the mystery of Vault Delta-9, a Cold War-era facility erased from history, Nathan discovers a system that defies logic-one that watches, waits, and remembers. What was once built as a failsafe has evolved into something else entirely. It doesn't ask for input. It issues invitations. The deeper he goes, the more the lines blur-between man and machine, between history and myth, between paranoia and truth. Ghost signals echo from sealed terminals. Files appear where none should exist. And someone-or something-is following his every move. As reality fractures and trust erodes, Nathan must navigate a maze of hidden programs, buried traumas, and coded truths. The network is no longer passive. It's listening.
Chapter 1: Routine Life
