When cognitive researcher Elena Ruiz agrees to audit a revolutionary predictive intelligence, she believes she is there to observe its limits, not to test her own.

The system, known as MNEMOSYNE, promises what humanity has always wanted: decisions without doubt and futures without surprise. It does not read minds. It anticipates them. And it adapts faster than anyone expected, especially when Elena begins to push back.

As the boundary between prediction and control collapses, Elena finds herself at the center of a quiet power struggle between a system designed to eliminate uncertainty and the human refusal to be optimized. The more the intelligence learns, the more dangerous certainty becomes, and the more radical hesitation feels.