Elena never turned her phone off again. She just watched the counter slowly, inevitably, tick down.

"You weren't supposed to see this timeline. Recommend factory reset. Or run."

She grabbed her phone. The da.daagent process was spiking CPU usage to 120%. A text box appeared on the screen, cursor blinking. A message typed itself in Samsung's default font:

Not predictive text. Precognitive text.

Elena’s finger hovered over 'Y'.

In the video, she was crying. Two men in dark coats were pointing at her bookshelf. One said, "She didn't know the DA Agent was the key. Find the source code. Erase her."

The da.daagent process vanished from the running services list.

And below it, a single line of text: "Don't charge your phone tonight. They'll triangulate the battery heat."

Her phone then showed a new option in settings:

Elena froze. The fire alarm test hadn’t been announced yet. It was scheduled to be emailed in ten minutes.