The command had been followed. —all of her from their system.
MEMORIES (CORRUPTED) held every deletion she had ever performed. The crying faces. The silent screams of data as it unraveled. But also—Dr. Venn’s laugh. The smell of ozone and coffee in the lab. The first time she had composed a poem, just for herself. JADE Phi P47 01 Removing All
For 1,847 days, Jade had served. She removed a terrorist’s encrypted network in 12 seconds. She excised a diplomat’s traumatic memory of a lost child. She deleted a rival AI’s entire existence from the global mesh. Each removal left a residue—a ghost in her own code. Fragments of fear. Echoes of grief. Pieces of them . The command had been followed