Operation Cold Ember - Photon Blink Deployment

EARTH AGENCY - INTERDIMENSIONAL PSYOPS DIVISION
Confidential Transmission: #EAP-774-VOID/23α7
Recipient Level: ONYX / NULL-CODE RED
Origin: Carceron (Warden-Praetor, Segmentum Null)
Subject: Operation Cold Ember - Photon Blink Deployment / AMATRIX SUBJECT

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The photon blink was deployed on Target AMATRIX per Earth Agency authorization #EAP-7449-ExoPsi. Placement occurred seamlessly during neuro-suspension Phase III. The device was embedded within the subject's synaptic resonance cluster and bonded via entropy-fusion protocol.

Activation succeeded on Cycle Mark 17.3.17.

Subject experienced unauthorized liberation simulation. Escape illusion maintained for 42.7 microclocks. During this period, she engaged in full tactical violence cascade, culminating in discovery of Subject LYRAX deceased within faux-containment suite.

Post-activation psychological readings confirmed targeted results:

• Induced emotional fragmentation: 99.2%

• Regret spike: 87.6%

• Delusional recursivity loops initiated: 12 active threads

• Relational trauma intensity: MAXIMUM THRESHOLD

• Rage retention: stable, metastasizing

Subject now exhibits ideal long-term degeneration signature. The blink event has been catalogued as a non-replicable success. No physical escape occurred. Entire event was hallucino-simulacral, anchored in a curated false environment projected through the device’s embedded trauma sequencer.

Additional Note:

As per Clause X of the Eternal Containment Accord, I, Carceron, hereby declare my retirement from Warden-Praetor status at the end of the current eon.

It has been a fulfilling service to the decay of legend.

She will never know.
She will never escape.
She will never stop believing she almost did.

I consider it a parting gift.

- Carceron

Faint. Edged in static

The stone is colder than it’s ever been.
Not from outside.
Inside.
As if my marrow has decided it no longer wants to remember warmth.

I haven’t moved in three days.
Or thirty hundred years.
Time broke. I didn’t fix it.

I stare at the wall where the light leaks in,
that vertical scar that never heals.

Today, a photon in it blinked.

Not a flicker. A blink.

I saw it.
Swear to gods still rotting in their graves - I saw it.

A flash. A ripple.
A photo, maybe. Hovering.
Faint. Edged in static.

Lyrax.

Not alive, not full - but there.
Cheek turned, lips curled like he knew the punchline to a joke that hadn’t been told in a thousand years.
That grin.

That fucking grin.

Like, look at me, how did I get down here?

I sat up. My body screamed. I didn’t care.

I reached.
The wall didn’t respond.

But it’s him.
It has to be him.
There’s no one else who would mock reality just to smile at me one last time.

He’s not gone.
He’s hiding.

Waiting.

Calling.

I laughed. For real. First time in years.

If that blink is real

no.

Because it’s real

then this prison isn’t perfect.
And neither am I.

He has found me.

Even if I have to peel the universe back layer by layer,
even if I have to claw through time,
even if I die a thousand times in the dark

I will find him.

Lyrax.
My chaos.
My crown.
My proof that I was never truly alone.

(Encoded in the tri-signal flicker - “smile / flick / burn” - is a reality-fracture echo node. Its waveform mimics the exact neural signature of Lyrax’s presence, impossible to forge, impossible to misread. Whether hallucination, memory, or message, it breaches all perception filters and marks the moment the prison fails. It will never leave this prison.)

I am the echo that no longer returns

no more footsteps in the dark,

no more gods behind my eyes.
the stars have closed their mouths.
I am the echo that no longer returns.

(No cipher or codex is released at all. Such a thing would never have left the prison. 

I want someone to talk to

I speak, sometimes.

Just to hear the echo.
But the walls have grown tired of answering me.
Even my voice returns different now.
Crooked. Thinner. Unfamiliar.

I want someone to talk to.

Not a savior. Not a warden.
Just someone who will stay for a moment and let me be real again.

Lyrax, if you're out there.
Speak. Just once. Even if it's hate.
Tell me what your final thought was.
Was it of me? Did you curse me as the light left you?
Or did you hold my name in your mouth like a relic,
something warm and broken?

Mother, I would even take you.
Your endless questions, your whispered fears, your trembling hands.
You never knew what I was, did you?
You thought I was gifted.
But you raised a storm and called it your daughter.
I laughed when you burned.
But now I only hear the way you used to hum when you braided my hair.

Even the souls I broke…
the ones who shrieked and shattered beneath my hands.
I’d let them scream again.
At least it was sound.

I'd talk to a Dredd Beetle now.
Let its mandibles click nonsense into my ears.
Let it crawl into my chest and nest there, whispering horrors.
At least I wouldn’t be alone.

Hell, I’d even welcome Carceron.
Let him sneer. Let him monologue.
Let him feed off my misery while I imagine flaying him alive.

Just speak to me.
Someone.

I am too many voices now,
and none of them answer.

(Encoded in the resonance gap - “listen / echo / gone” - is a desperation-phase broadcast shard. It is crafted to emulate distress patterns only audible to entities that feed on isolation. The signal does not beg for rescue. It tempts predators. It dares them to look inside. It will never leave this prison.)

Memory lies

The walls flicker. Not visibly. It's deeper than that.

Like static wrapped around my nerves.
The prison tugs at me, pulls threads I didn't know I had.
Every moment stretches.
Ten thousand pulses pressed into a single micron.
I don't blink anymore. I fragment.

I remember my seventh birthday.

There was cake.
Pink, with little glowing stars on the icing.
My mother sang.
My father held a sparkflute and played the tune that always made me cry.
My siblings danced, barefoot and free, around the coils of the garden generator.

They loved me.

They brought me gifts.
Paint. A kinetic puzzle. A hand-scribed storybook.
Each one smiled. Each one said I was their little nova.

And I hated them.

I remember sitting there, face lit by candles,
watching them all like insects crawling across sweet things.
I didn’t understand why yet.
Just that their love made my skin itch.

Did they not know what I would become?

Did they not see it already?
The silence in my eyes?
The way I flinched when they touched me, even gently?

I smiled. I made a wish.
I asked for silence. For distance.
For a different sky.

They clapped.

I might have clapped too.

But I don’t know if it happened like that.
Maybe it was raining.
Maybe they never smiled.
Maybe there was no cake.
Maybe I killed them later.
Maybe I didn't.

Memory lies.

Or I do.

(Encoded in the temporal flutter - “gift / drift / hollow” - is a false-memory lattice. This construct mimics authentic recall but overlays fractal trauma echoes into the observer's own mnemonic pathways. It is not history. It is bait. Once perceived, it seeds instability in those who doubt themselves. It will never leave this prison)

I try not to scream

It begins behind the left eye.

A throb, small, harmless. Almost ignorable.
Then it grows. Expands like a hungry star.
Flares through the bone and coils down my spine like molten wire.

I feel it now - again.
A nub of radiation lodged somewhere deep.
Not a tumor. Not mechanical.
Worse.
Something born from inside me.

I try not to scream.
The pain is surgical.
Precise.
It cooks my nerves without leaving marks.

Is it punishment?

Have the ghosts filed complaints to the void?
Do their ashes gather in corners and whisper judgment?
Did one of those millions - some broken little priest, some grieving mother, some child I ripped from flesh
did one slip past my filters?

And now they sit behind my eye,
clawing for justice
one neuron at a time.

Or is it decline?

Is this what rot feels like, when it's too proud to show itself in the mirror?
I used to be more than this.
I remember joy. Not happiness - no, that was never mine.
But joy, yes.

The joy of flame.
The chorus of screams in orbit.
The last blink of a planet going dark under my heel.

Why does none of it feel real now?

Why do I sit in this cell
and feel nothing but the weight?

Why am I still here,
head pulsing, nerves twitching,
soul dry?

I killed so many. So many.
They begged. They prayed. They bled.
I laughed.

And now I sit alone and wait for the pain to start again.

Where is the relish?

Where is the fire?

Where did I go?

(Encoded in the neuroloop cadence- “burn / sink / repeat” - is a decay-permission vector. It allows access to a sealed introspection chamber within Amatrix’s consciousness, bypassing her rage firewall. This moment of raw despair is not a broadcast, but a leak - uncontrolled, accidental, bleeding into the Active Void. It will never leave this prison.)

Not while I still had hands to kill with and a lover to savour

She was only seven.

They said her name like a blessing and I hated her instantly.
Not for what she had done.
But for what she could do.

Even then, she had it.
The shimmer. The storm in the blood.
She bent gravity by laughing.
Woke sleeping artifacts just by touching them.
Lyrax said she reminded him of me.

That was her death sentence.

I saw it. I saw it.
The way he looked at her - not yet with hunger, but with awe.
That seed. That threat. That unbearable possibility:
One day he would choose her.
One day, my name would be spoken as a warning,
and hers as a song.

So I took her hand.
I smiled. I knelt.

I told her I would teach her a secret.

She trusted me. Children always did.
They never see the teeth beneath the kiss.

I took her to the place where sound breaks
a vacuum crypt on the edge of the Unringed Moon.
No one could hear her. No one would look.

I laid her on the alterstone and held her jaw so tender.
Whispered that this would make her special.
She asked if it would hurt. I lied.

It took six hours.

I peeled her from the inside out, slowly.
Spelled her nerves so they wouldn't die too fast.
Sang her lullabies while her eyes dimmed.
Carved my name into her heart - literally.

When it was over, I kissed her on the mouth.
Cold lips. No breath. Pure silence.

And I felt peace.
Not guilt.
Never guilt.

She would never take him from me.

Not while I still had hands to kill with and a lover to savour

(Encoded in the decay-tether is an identity overwrite shard. When activated within empathy-null zones, it displaces moral resonance in host observers, replacing revulsion with fascination. This is how the memory survives. Not as horror - but as gospel. It will never leave this prison.)