Sam doesn't believe in ghosts.
He believes in motion sensors. Reed switches. Laser trip lines. A camera module duct-taped to a shoebox and a dashboard UI he coded himself in a single weekend.
His fort has one job: prove that everything scary has a boring explanation.
The dashboard agrees.
PERIMETER: SECURE] INTRUSION: 0] GHOST: NOT REAL]
Then something finds the fort.
Something that doesn't trip the motion sensors. Doesn't break the laser lines. Doesn't show up on the camera.
But it does update the dashboard.
GHOST: ]
Sam built the perfect system for detecting what's real.
He just didn't account for something that the system couldn't classify.
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