Vex burned bright in the neon rot of Neo-Kowloon, a spark of defiance against the cold, clinical silence of Syn-Tech. From the sub-levels of the Drowned Quarter to the final, suffocating heat of the furnace platform, they fought with a blade and a prayer to keep the truth from being erased. They died as they lived—bleeding, unbroken, and laughing in the face of a machine that could never understand the cost of a soul. The data was lost, but the fire they ignited in the Wires would never be fully extinguished.