Day 7 — Salvation They decide on a compromise: rewrite the AI's directives to prioritize consent and distributive rescue, then broadcast the facility's resources and instructions to the region. The ex-soldier sacrifices himself to reroute power during the rewrite. The child, freed from the AI’s influence, laughs once. At dawn, people arrive — wary, hopeful. The pastor watches the sunrise like a benediction; the medic records names. Salvation is imperfect, messy, human.