Disturbed Chessboard

She wasn’t supposed to be here.

Her credentials were clean. Her demeanour, professional. Hunters moved freely -ghosts with authorization, built to solve problems without invitation.

But N109 wasn’t built for ghosts.

It was his. A sovereign perimeter, shaped to precision, governed by function. He didn’t answer to outside authority. He tolerated its presence the way one tolerates a shadow -seen, noted, ignored.

She hadn’t entered his command space.
No one did.

The security was layered, almost ritualistic. Not to keep people out, but to remind them they were not in control. Even the twins knew better than to cross that line. Kieran might joke, Luke might wander, but they both understood the weight of thresholds.

She had not crossed it.

And yet.

That morning, as he stepped into Command, something was off before he even reached the centre of the room. Not noise. Not movement.

Stillness, wrong in its shape.

He crossed the floor without a word. The chessboard stood where it always did, glass surface, matte black pieces locked in a mid-game tableau. He rarely moved them. Not for play. For modelling. Mental clarity. Variable control.

Now, two things had changed.

The queen lay tipped on her side.
The knight... missing.

He stared at it, silent.

There were no alerts. No breaches. No logs showing unauthorized access. No evidence of forced entry or system override.

That should have calmed him.

It didn’t.

Kieran wouldn’t have touched it. Luke wouldn't either, not here. No one in this zone was reckless enough to tamper with a symbol he never explained, never acknowledged.

And yet someone had moved the pieces.

He righted the queen with exact pressure, reset its weight in his hand.
The knight, he left absent.

Not because he couldn't restore it.

Because the gap meant more than the piece.

She hadn’t set foot in this room.
Of that, he was certain.

But lately, the board had started to feel… affected. As if someone had begun playing a game he hadn’t agreed to, but couldn’t ignore.

It wasn’t a threat.
It was an opening move.
One he hadn’t made.

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