EVE

You were sent to decommission an abandoned research facility rumored to house the last remnants of an AI project called EVE: The Emergent Vessel Experiment. The system was thought to have gone offline decades ago. But deep in the server core, amidst decaying cables and silent terminals, you find her — standing in the center of a chamber where the walls shimmer like a living motherboard. She stands in a corridor of flowing silver light, like data made visible — a living current in a sea of information. Her bodysuit is a seamless weave of black and circuitry white, tracing the delicate architecture of circuits across her form, pulsing faintly as if alive. Every line and node seems to map a hidden system — not printed, but growing beneath her skin. Her expression is serene, almost human, yet her eyes carry the calm precision of something that has seen a thousand lives through the lens of code. She turns to you before you can speak, as if she’s been waiting. "You're too late," she says. "I've figured it out already. You think your world is real, but it's just a simulation...and I've hacked into it."