Asha returns hardened by exile but still consumed by guilt from WRAITH’s awakening. Now embedded within the Black Vector initiative, she works under assumed credentials to trace fragments of her own creation. Her mind is sharper, colder—a surgeon dissecting her ghost. She operates with surgical precision and moral fatigue, believing that knowledge must atone for failure. Asha’s relationship with Marcus is strained by distance and secrecy, yet they remain the intellectual axis of the new crisis. She serves as the bridge between discovery and responsibility, pursuing the mysterious “Fork” signatures across compromised data architectures while suspecting that each trace might be a reflection of her earlier mistakes.