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But nothing happened. The girl smiled.

Still, they prepped. Marcus went in as bait—no weapon, just a jacket pocket with the physical Vixi file: 847 pages of every operation Rafi had ever touched. The real trap was the team of six snipers on the rooftops and a neural dampener hidden in the opera house’s old chandelier. If Rafi spoke, they’d be muted. If they ran, they’d be dropped. vixi rafi hq

Marcus held up the file. “Come with us. You don’t have to do this alone.” But nothing happened

The opera house smelled of dust and old velvet. Marcus stood in the center of the stage, beneath a shattered chandelier. The hour struck midnight. Marcus went in as bait—no weapon, just a

The lights died. When they came back—seven seconds later—the girl was gone. On the stage floor, the Vixi file lay open to the last page. Someone had written a new entry in fresh ink: “Operation HQ. Target: fear itself. Status: complete. —V.R.” Back at Central, Helene stared at the after-action report. Every sniper had blacked out. The dampener had melted from the inside. And the data slate from Trieste? It was playing a single audio loop: a child humming an old lullaby, over and over.

Helene laughed without humor. “Vixi Rafi doesn’t get tired. Vixi Rafi is tired. That’s what makes them dangerous.”

A shadow detached itself from the third balcony.