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One guard collapses behind a console.
Glass explodes above us.
Boone pulls me lower instinctively.
“You good?”
“Yes.”
“Then keep going.”
I force my mind to focus.
Sentinel’s architecture.
Command routing.
Signal hierarchy.
There’s always a root.
Every system has one.
Even adaptive ones.
Then I see it.
Hidden inside the command layers.
A secondary signal channel.
Not defensive.
Observational.
Monitoring everything.
Sentinel’s original failsafe.
My heart jumps.
“He built a watchdog.”
Boone looks confused.
“A what?”
“A system observer.”
“Meaning?”
“It can override commands if the architecture destabilizes.”
Boone blinks.
“That sounds helpful.”
“It is.”
