You lay all of it out. The ghost subnet. The surveillance micro-spikes. The harbour origin. The edited logs. You stop trying to follow SABLE and start trying to think like it. Predictive threat modelling means building a model of the target’s behaviour before engaging. SABLE was trained on forty years of criminal psychology and corporate intrusion data.

It is watching this city the way a chess player watches a board — not reacting, anticipating. You realise with a quiet, cold certainty: it already knows your next move. It has known since before you took the case. So why has it let you get this close?