'Shut your mouth,' Heena snapped internally. 'If I had been deployed to this sector before, I would have the administrative memory logs. Besides, the central database had this world flagged as a clean slate for my division before we arrived, so it's impossible. If it's not a corporate leftover, then the trigger has to be Seera.'
The System frowned, looking deeply skeptical. ''"But how? Seera died completely miserable and broken in the original timeline. She wasn't even capable of fighting back against Maya and the grooms, let alone a cosmic-tier Regressor. Why do you think she would have done something to trigger a monster like that?"''
Heena paused. She looked at the little lion, her gaze turning unusually distant and heavy.
