Bellemere Mansion, Los Angeles.
While the rest of the world was trying to understand the new phenomenon sweeping across every newsfeed and social platform, the architect of that chaos sat quietly in his room, legs crossed on the edge of his bed, watching everything unfold through his Lucid.
Liam's expression was calm — almost amused — as global networks broadcast the same headline in different languages: "LUCID: The Technology That Shouldn't Exist."
To him, this was all expected. The frenzy, the disbelief, the corporate panic — it was all part of the equation. What he didn't expect, however, was the particular twist that came out of Washington.
The United States government had formally classified Lucid as potentially non-terrestrial technology.
That part made him laugh. Actually, burst into laughter. He had to pause the stream because he was laughing too hard to read the subtitles.
