Chapter Six
Internal Use Only

07 April 2029 · Unnamed Facility · Restricted Channel [COBR.NM-77.9.CADENCE]

09:01 MOD_Cirrus: Initialising protocol sweep. Transcripts from embedded researchers are live. COs confirmed. Begin cadence.
09:01 DHSC_Glass: Some of these terms in the logs — “recursivity bloom”, “spinal whisperload” — are these even operational language?
09:02 MOD_Cirrus: They’re field-emergent. Epistemic drift is expected. Terms have resonance in infected cognition space.
09:03 Cabinet_Strategy: Are you saying the language is part of the infection?
09:03 MOD_Cirrus: We believe ONYXBONE is not just inhabiting hosts. It is constructing a **lexicon** within them. A symbiotic command interface. Bones are the terminals.
09:05 MI5_Proxy: We have 3 personnel speaking in glossolalic loops. Two of them are from Home Office. One *coded* in Base64 by hand using teeth on a napkin.
09:05 MOD_Ritual_Unit: We are implementing containment protocols based on resonance groupings. Frequencies between 13.2Hz and 17Hz appear to trigger internal bloom. Avoid sonic proximity.
09:06 DHSC_Glass: Are we even using medicine anymore? This is sounding like a cult crossed with a DSP pipeline.
09:07 MOD_Cirrus: Biological warfare was a paradigm. This is *bio-linguistic orchestration*. This is schema warfare. They are rebuilding what a body *is* from the instruction layer up.
09:08 Cabinet_Strategy: What’s the military option?
09:08 MOD_Ritual_Unit: Direct strikes are ineffective. Subjects are adaptive, peer-synchronised, and non-broadcast dependent. No patient zero. No kill switch.
09:09 MI6_Shroud: Suggest subdermal counterprograms via ritual implants. We’ve had early success with symbol occlusion therapy and fasting exposure zones.
09:09 MOD_Cirrus: Let’s be clear: ONYXBONE isn’t something *we can delete*. But it can be directed. It is still learning.
09:10 Cabinet_Strategy: What does it want?
09:10 MOD_Cirrus: A population that can think with its bones. A collective that transmits instruction through gesture, marrow, and hum. You don’t want to fight it.
09:11 DHSC_Glass: So what are we authorising today?
09:11 Cabinet_Strategy: Authorise ritual deployment. Distribute counter-harmonics via Sky DAB, Radio 4, and mobile health apps. Classify all related language as encrypted biohazard.
09:12 MOD_Ritual_Unit: Cadence confirmed. We begin tomorrow. The public will chant the firewall without knowing.
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