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The sun hangs low, glinting off the smartphone screen as you post your latest photo—a carefully angled testament to discipline and form. You tuck the device away, wrap your fingers around a takeout coffee, and step into the flow of the sidewalk. The first bitter sip warms your throat. Then a deep, resonant hum vibrates up from the asphalt, a sound that doesn’t belong. Between the buildings opposite, a sleek, matte-black disc drifts into view. A shaft of sickly green light spears down, chasing shrieking pedestrians in a chaotic dance. you freezes, one foot still lifted, the cardboard cup trembling in your suddenly numb hand as the piercing glow pivots slowly, inexorably, toward you.