Quantum Shadows

Previously

…Aris looked at the watch, its ticking a steady, defiant beat against the encroaching silence. He knew, with a certainty that surprised him, that he would not surrender it. He would not let Vance’s life’s work fall into the wrong hands. The game had changed. He was no longer just an observer of quantum shadows; he was about to step into them, to confront the unseen hand that sought to control them. The impossible, he realized, was not a barrier, but a frontier. And he was ready to cross it.