TAK

Previously

…The proctor who had approached him earlier stood a few feet away, her hand hovering over her comm device. Her gaze met Tak’s, and for a fleeting moment, he saw not an enforcer of the system, but a person caught in its gears. He offered her a small, almost imperceptible nod. The air was no longer thick with fear, but alive with the electric charge of the unknown. The TAK, the ultimate arbiter of their lives, had been broken. And in its shattering, a new possibility, uncertain and terrifying, was born. The reckoning had begun.