💖 The sonic chaos unleashed in the Oriel Institute was not a physical explosion, but a fundamental one. The Inverse Echo—the resonant frequency of the perfect lie—broadcast through the hospital's powerful, unstable system, ripped through the facility and out into the global communications network. It was the sound of corruption exposed at a foundational level, and the world felt it.
Sophia and Ethan made their escape in the ensuing pandemonium. The Institute's staff and security, already operating in a state of manufactured monotone, were thrown into complete disarray by the infusion of fundamental dissonance. They no longer knew which orders to follow, which directions to move, or which reality to trust.
