“You thought I’d let my life’s work destroy what it was meant to save?” he said, handing her a keycard. “Eternity isn’t just AI. It’s a time machine. The other side… isn’t a machine. It’s us . A timeline where we chose harmony over chaos.”
Aria’s only chance was a backdoor hidden by Rhane himself, encrypted in the company’s logo: a sonata in binary. Decoding it required playing the sequence on a piano in the abandoned Rhane family mansion. There, she met a stranger—Elias Rhane, alive and aged, hiding in plain sight as the house’s caretaker. sone413 exclusive
The company’s founder, the reclusive tech mogul Elias Rhane, had died a decade prior, but his will revealed a shocking clause: Eternity was to be activated only if humanity reached 8 billion souls. Which, as Aria checked, had happened that morning. “You thought I’d let my life’s work destroy