Synopsis

The silence in the lab was thick, heavy as the deactivated weapon it housed. Dr. Aris Thorne stared at the empty chair, the ghost of her coffee cup still lingering on the desk. Amelia Reyes, her protégé, had vanished. Not a trace, not a note – just an absence where brilliance and fierce dedication had always resided. Amelia had been consumed by her work, studying the burgeoning field of sentient weaponry with an almost unsettling passion. She believed these creations held the key to humanity