The screen went dark. Then, in tiny gray letters at the bottom corner:
> UNEXPECTED QUIET DETECTED. ZONE 7 THERMAL SHADOW. LOG CONFIRMED. isf watchkeeper 4 login
Below it, three fields: ID, PASS, TOKEN. The screen went dark
The screen flickered. For a split second, Singh saw something that wasn't a login prompt—a grainy black-and-white image of a corridor he didn't recognize, lined with five empty chairs. And in the sixth chair, a figure in an ISF uniform, head tilted back, eyes open. The screen went dark. Then
He pressed play.