But the CleanAudio Consortium is hunting them, fearing the vault’s contents would undermine their control over truth. Their enforcers use Audio Nullifiers — weapons that emit frequency-based disorientation — to erase resistance. Vedaa and Kael must rely on analog tech and their own unfiltered wits to survive. In the vault, they find not just audio, but something more: “Echo-Selves” , holographic projections of people who chose to live as audio. These Echoes are fragments of souls who rejected CleanAudio’s sterile order, choosing to exist as raw sound and silence. Among them is Anaya herself, her voice looping the same plea: “They took our words, but they never took our truth.”