-hcls- Your Name | EASY | 2027 |

End of draft. Want me to continue this into a full short story or turn it into a script-style opening?

-HcLs- Acknowledged. -HcLs- Welcome to the Helios Closed Loop System. -HcLs- Your first directive follows.

The cursor waited.

The first time the message appeared, Mira thought it was a spam notification.

She called her mother first. Everything fine. Then her sister. Also fine. But something gnawed at her. That night, she drove two hours to the house she grew up in—the one her father still refused to leave, even after the stroke. -HcLs- Your Name

The lights were off. The door was unlocked.

And beneath it, a set of coordinates. A date. And a warning she would never forget: End of draft

-HcLs- Your Name