Field Test Results – Subject: K. Meeks, Volunteer.
Dr. Elara Vance stared at the file icon on her screen. It looked innocuous—a tiny, zipped folder named . But its presence on the secure intranet of the Aethelburg Institute of Botanical Ethics had just triggered a silent, priority-one alert. Issue 17 Forbidden Fruit.rar
She told herself it was the pipes.