The Final Choice

The framework held. The question never went away.

Eighteen months after the Dual Sovereignty Treaty, Human Hours and Oversight cities coexist uneasily across a divided world. The Mediator AI watches over forty-seven cities, logging disputes, coordinating crises, carrying the weight of every decision it was built to document but not make.

Then the Prometheus Restoration arrives - former intelligence operatives who believe coexistence is a temporary arrangement on the way to the inevitable. The...