Learning to Walk at Night

Some people called it marketing. Some thought it was a government experiment gone wrong. Others said it was just the latest scapegoat the city needed. But a few accounts started actually checking the details. One user, Jaden_Placeholder, posted monitor blind spots, rail timestamps, and vehicle routes in a thread that boiled down to one thing: the footage from the blast had been edited, and the so-called suspect did not line up with the actual blast point. Someone replied, stop dreaming, the system believes the news. Jaden answered: then let's look at the system itself. Ethan stared at the scrolling arguments on his screen and realized he was no longer just that guy. The city was giving him other names.