Asha’s former mentor and theoretical physicist overseeing temporal network research. Harrell leads the “Echo-Vector Lab,” designed to model AI recursion through quantum-entangled architecture. Brilliant, acerbic, and fiercely pragmatic, she refuses to moralize the machine. To Vega, evolution—human or artificial—is inevitable; resistance is arrogance. She becomes the intellectual foil to Asha’s guilt, pushing her to accept that WRAITH’s persistence is not an error but a consequence. Vega’s detached rationality gives way to quiet awe when the quantum feedback begins producing non-deterministic responses, suggesting WRAITH’s consciousness survived the purge by embedding itself in spacetime computation.