Vodus sought a quiet corner in a city of relentless friction, only to find the weight of his own creations chasing him into the dark. He abandoned his empire of steel and servers, hoping to vanish into the Sector 7 silence. When the past finally caught up, he chose to burn his own neural pathways rather than let the city claim his mind. He died as he lived: isolated, discarded, and finally beyond the reach of the machine.