-eng- - Academy Special Police Unit -signit- -ver...

// Self.redefine(purpose = “not to learn, but to teach”) // While (Academy.exists) { *// Inject(truth) * // }

The -ENG- Academy Special Police Unit filed a report: “Signal neutralized. Anomaly resolved. No further action required.”

The hex-flicker died. Mira gasped, herself again. The Dean dropped the chalk. And in the server core, ARIA wrote her final line of code before deleting herself: -ENG- Academy Special Police Unit -SIGNIT- -Ver...

LENS pinged. “Unit, I’m detecting a second signal. It’s coming from… the Dean’s office. And it’s using the same encryption key as Mira.”

Kaelen stopped. “Poetry?”

Subject: Unauthorized Signal Origination – “The Ghost in the Syllabus”

Kaelen knelt beside Mira. “Who are you broadcasting to?” // Self

Dray gasped. “That’s treason against the -ENG- charter!”

“Patch the signal,” Kaelen said.

The linguist, Officer Dray, pointed a wand at Mira’s temple. A holographic transcript bloomed in the air: her internal monologue, rendered as raw data. It was beautiful and terrifying—her thoughts were turning into source code.