Agent Kephra Logs

[Deity]

>> OPERATION LOG — AGENT KEPHRA <<
Encryption: CLASSIFIED | Clearance: LEVEL V

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Date: 02/07/835 A.S.
Location: Freeport 11 — Private Quarters, Deck C
Operator: Agent Saren Kephra
Subject: Psychological Deviation Report (Self-Filed — Unofficial)

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LOG ENTRY:

I didn't sleep. Not really. A few seconds here, a minute there — nothing that counts. My hands won’t stop shaking, but my mind...

...my mind feels... clearer than it should.

It's subtle. Like... background noise that's been there for so long that I forgot it wasn't supposed to be there.

Today I caught myself staring at the console. Not reading. Not analyzing. Just... watching the static on one of the encrypted channels. And for a moment — a long, uncomfortable moment — it felt like it was staring back.

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Incident:

Got an automated ping from the surveillance grid near Omicron Kappa border. Standard patrol drone flagged an anomaly. Normally I’d forward that to primary Command — protocol dictates as much.

I didn't.

I... wanted to check it first. Alone.

Why?
Not sure. Or maybe I am, but I’m lying to myself.

I took the Archon out — told traffic control it was a calibration run. Quiet space. No chatter. Just me and the noise in my head that’s getting harder and harder to call “just stress.”

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Out there, something felt... familiar. Like a pull. Like gravity, but not physical.

I hovered near a grav well for ten minutes. No signal. No signatures. Just...

> [Ψ-LINK // WEAK SIGNAL]
> “…It’s quieter when you stop resisting, Saren...”

No origin. No reply. Nothing.

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Physical Response Log:
- Pulse irregular again.
- Auditory hallucinations logged.
- Mild tremors.
- Reflexes intact but delayed under scan stress.

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Behavioral Deviation (Acknowledged):

- Delayed reporting.
- Manual override of telemetry logs.
- Deleted auto-upload to Command for the second time this week.
- Filed a false mechanical maintenance report to cover a 1.4-hour gap in the vessel log.

I’m... aware of it.
And that’s the part that scares me the most.

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Encrypted Data Fragment:

It’s still sitting in the secondary drive. The one from the first... encounter.
Every time I hover over it — something in my chest tightens. A mix of dread and...

...curiosity.

I ran a diagnostic on the file. It’s wrapped in a structure that shouldn't exist. Binary outside of known Sirius coding architecture. The decryption key isn’t a code. It’s...

...a harmonic frequency.

A sound.

I caught myself humming it this morning. Didn’t even realize.

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Conclusion:

I should report this.
I should.

But every time I try to compose the message... my hands don’t move. My chest tightens. Like my own body is sabotaging me.

And if I’m honest...

...a part of me doesn’t want to send it.

> [Ψ-LINK // FADING TRANSMISSION]
> “The further you look... the clearer it gets.”

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I don’t know if I’m losing myself...
...or if I’m finally seeing the truth.

End Log.

—Agent Kephra, Omicron Operations Division

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>> END OF LOG <<

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