Catch What's Mine
[EVELYN – Vale Industries – The Next Morning]
Elise(Assistant)
“Ma’am, there’s an internal concern about your private access to the server logs. The IT team flagged—”
Evelyn Vale / FL
“Who flagged it?”
Elise(Assistant)
“Anonymous alert. Redacted IP.”
Evelyn Vale / FL
“Let them look. Let them worry. I want the ghost to know I’m watching back.”
She brushes past. The click of her heels echoes behind her like a countdown.
[EVELYN – Off-Grid Tech Lab – Afternoon]
A black car idles outside a discreet building in SoHo. Evelyn walks in without announcing herself. Engineers straighten. A few nearly fall over themselves.
Lead Developer
“Ms. Vale—this is unexpected—”
Evelyn Vale / FL
“I need biometric patterning software. Sub-vocal stress detection. If LUXEN’s founder ever speaks, I want to know when he lies.”
Lead Developer
“That’s highly experimental—”
Evelyn Vale / FL
“I didn’t ask for polished. I asked for powerful.”
Evelyn Vale / FL
“I want a ghost trap. I want to see what this man looks like before he knows I’ve found him.”
[EVELYN – Backseat of Car – Evening]
Traffic blurs around her. She watches nothing, thinking everything.
Everyone has a price.
Or a pressure point.
Some want money.
Some want fear.
Some want legacy.
The name sticks in her head like a splinter:
He’s not famous. Not rich in the way the world counts it. But someone who disappears for five years and returns with code like that? That’s dangerous.
> Dig deeper. Start with military. I want everything. Even whispers.
[EVELYN – Alone in Penthouse – Midnight]
She stands before her digital wall — six vertical screens. Streams of raw code, redacted intelligence, LUXEN activity logs.
She watches it like a hunter watching brush move.
One screen flickers. For a fraction of a second, a line of code shifts.
Evelyn Vale / FL
“You’re watching me.” muttering.
But she doesn’t flinch. She steps closer, hands behind her back.
Evelyn Vale / FL
“Watch all you like.”
Evelyn Vale / FL
“I always catch what’s mine.”
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