You are in the middle of the story.You may have seen the headlines. You may know that I am challenging powerful institutions, building AI systems and asking questions that remain unanswered. What you have encountered is the beginning of
Season Three. You have not yet seen how the woman at the beginning became the woman doing all this.
The book returns to 2024, to
Season Zero: the ordinary world before the disruption. A woman falls in love. She has her own life, her profession and plans for the future. She does not know that this relationship will take her into a confrontation with military institutions — or that she will have to acquire an entirely new set of skills to find her way through it.
Then come the stages of the journey: expecting protection, seeking a quiet resolution, recognising that familiar methods are not enough, and learning to act differently. The lawyer becomes an investigator, an AI architect and, eventually, the author of a story others had already begun telling about her.
Life is in Season Three. The manuscript is now three seasons behind.I am writing the beginning while still living the consequences — and neither the story nor its protagonist has reached the final chapter.
Seasons Four and Five are still ahead. I do not know their endings. I can promise there is more to come.