1 | Vulture

Its failsafe programming, a relic of Cold War paranoia, activated. If contact was lost near hostile territory, the drone was to execute Protocol Lazarus: It wasn’t supposed to think, but the anomaly had fused its navigation matrix with its threat-recognition AI. It began to learn.

It was a signature. A name.

Then came the storm.

But V-1 didn’t circle. It drifted.