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Nicholas Boothman
Chapter 15:
The Signal
The kinetic strikes never came.
Henry stood in the street, braced for impact, watching the
sky turn that sickening orange-green. The air-raid sirens
wailed their final song. And then—nothing.
The missiles simply stopped. Mid-flight. Frozen in the
upper atmosphere like insects trapped in amber.
Henry's satellite phone buzzed. Impossible—the EMPs
should have fried every circuit within a hundred miles. He
pulled it out with shaking hands.
It was Jinji. Her voice was raw, terrified. "Henry. You
need to see this. Now."
"The strikes—"
"Didn't happen. Couldn't happen. Something stopped
them. Something in the code." She was breathing hard, like
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