Aftermath

AFTERMATH: The Human Error

By Leticia Lilleström

They said it was a failed mission. She remembers differently. The truth? It remembers her.

Major Ava Rehn was extracted from the ruins of Project ECHO with no memory and a warning buried in her blood. Now stationed in a NATO recovery wing, her mind is fractured, her past redacted-and something inside her is waking up.

When classified footage resurfaces and neural echoes begin to infect civilians with no known exposure, Rehn realises the operation wasn't a rescue. It was a test.

Across snowbound ruins and silenced labs, she hunts the ghost of Subject 04-once a soldier, now something else-only to discover the experiment never ended... it evolved.

As her identity begins to unravel, Ava must confront the unthinkable:

She wasn't chosen to survive the project.

She was built to complete it.