Ov-sqte-034

: "It's not a tapestry. It's my life if I'd made every wrong choice. I saw myself laughing while the orphanage burned. I heard myself whispering how to break my own fingers. It knows me better than I do. And it hates me for the roads I didn't take."

In the sterile, humming corridors of the Orbital Velocity (OV) Research Station, the designation OV-SQTE-034 was whispered with a mix of awe and dread. It wasn’t a person, nor was it a machine. It was a Sequence—a string of code discovered in the static of a dying star, a mathematical ghost that seemed to possess a mind of its own. OV-SQTE-034