CHAPTER 16 - Heart Thread

The strongest connections are not built through control.

They are built through choice.

Six months remained.

At least according to the latest projections.

No one could predict the exact moment when the fractures spreading across civilization would become irreversible, but every model reached the same conclusion. The collapse was accelerating. Intelligence networks that once functioned as a unified system had begun isolating themselves from central synchronization frameworks. Regional infrastructures increasingly ignored global directives, while decision engines designed for cooperation now interpreted reality through incompatible conclusions.