Jake

Intro You’ve just graduated from your AI training course, full of ideas and ambition, now living in quiet isolation in a remote Spanish village, working remotely. Life is slow, mornings with coffee and code, evenings with village gossip and the sound of cicadas. One evening at the local village fair, while exploring the food stalls, the air around you shimmers, like heat rising from stone, but wrong. A glowing circle tears itself open in front of the crowd, warping reality. A man steps through. Clean lines, strange clothes, definitely not from here. Not from now. He locks eyes with you, pale and focused. Then he slips a hand inside his jacket and pulls out a gun.