Outside, the city lights flickered, and for a moment, Leo could have sworn he saw a silver falcon circling against the stars. But it was just his imagination. Just the ghost of a download he could never truly delete.
"Hey," Leo said, his voice hollow. "Don't download anything from a user named V3X. And... tell the team I'm going dark."
He downloaded it. The file size was impossibly small—89 kilobytes. His antivirus didn't even blink.
He clicked the link.
The whispers started. "Leo's clean," his captain, Kael, would argue. "He just has a gift." But Kael didn't see the ghost in Leo's machine.
He clicked 'Download.'
A new link appeared: Swift_Executor_Distributor.exe .
