Laila had always been good with numbers. As a data scientist, she found comfort in the logic of algorithms, where every input had an output, and every variable had its place. But the moment she entered the old warehouse, she knew something was wrong. It wasn’t the abandoned state of the place, or even the …
Story 1: The Glitch
It wasn’t supposed to happen. The VR headset we designed was meant for a simple simulation—nothing more than a test of our programming skills. But something went wrong, horribly wrong. Orin and Liora were the last two left in the lab when the glitch happened. One moment, they were tweaking the code, adjusting variables to …