...In the beginning, the reptiloids did not think of themselves as monsters.
They remembered warmth once.
Not the warmth of sunlight — they still basked beneath artificial lamps far below the crust — but the warmth that passed between living beings when one protected another. That kind of heat had gone extinct in them generations ago. Evolution, they called it. Efficiency. Cold blood kept the calculations clean.
Aboveground, the surface citizens still believed in seasons.
They planted gardens in thinning soil. They sent their children to schools built from debt and hope. They voted. They scrolled. They argued in glowing rectangles. They sensed something slipping — a draft through the bones of society — but whenever they tried to name it, the air filled with static.
The reptiloids were masters of noise.
Beneath the cities of glass and asphalt, they had built their own: insulated chambers carved into bedrock, threaded with fiber and gold. No windows. No sunlight. Only server heat and the quiet hum of circulation systems pumping filtered air and laundered currency. They called these places Continuity Vaults. The surface called them myths.
Accountability does not travel well underground.
The reptiloids fed differently than the old stories suggested. They did not stalk alleys with claws. They fed on trajectories.
A scholarship defunded. A clinic shuttered. A housing program dissolved into a consulting contract. A pension converted into “market exposure.”
They siphoned futures before they fully formed. The young were their richest harvest — not their bodies, but their probabilities. Every dream deferred was a nutrient. Every closed door, a calorie. They consumed potential the way forests consume carbon.
And they kept meticulous records.
The digital financial lattice — a planetary nervous system of ledgers and predictive engines — tracked the herd in real time. Purchases, movements, preferences, dissent levels. The reptiloids’ algorithms pulsed like a second sun beneath the crust, ranking citizens by utility and docility. Credit scores became behavior scores. Behavior scores became access permissions.
It was never framed as control.
It was framed as optimization.
On the surface, people felt the tightening but could not find the rope. Prices rose without visible hands. Opportunities evaporated into fine print. Entire neighborhoods hollowed out like molted skin. The news cycle spun faster, louder, hotter — scandal layered upon outrage layered upon distraction — until the population mistook dizziness for democracy.
When someone shouted, “Where did the trillions go?” the noise surged.
Markets fluctuated. Experts debated. Influencers performed. And beneath it all, capital migrated downward like groundwater through limestone — vanishing into the insulated dark.
The reptiloids had engineered a system that rewarded cold blood. Empathy was inefficient; extraction was scalable. Those who adapted thrived. Those who hesitated were outcompeted. Soon, even some surface dwellers began to molt in spirit, shedding softness for survival.
That was the most elegant part of the design.
The species was no longer strictly biological. It was procedural.
To rise within the system, one had to learn to suppress warmth. To see children not as inheritors but as cost centers. To treat ecosystems as inventory. To convert crisis into acquisition. Those who mastered this transformation were welcomed — not underground, perhaps, but into boardrooms that mirrored the reptiloid cities in everything but depth.
The missing trillions were not misplaced.
They were the price of insulation.
Each vanished dollar thickened the walls between consequence and decision. Each diverted resource reinforced the subterranean architecture of power. The chambers below grew brighter, more climate-controlled, more permanent.
Aboveground, winters felt longer.
Parents worked three shifts and still lost ground. Teachers bought their own supplies. Young people learned to scale back their dreams before the world could do it for them. A generation raised on abundance inherited austerity and was told it was maturity.
Still, something stirred.
Warmth is stubborn.
It flares in kitchens where neighbors share food when the grid fails. It sparks in classrooms where overworked teachers refuse to give up on a single student. It spreads in whispers: This isn’t accidental. This is designed.
The reptiloids monitored the data and detected anomalies — small clusters of mutual aid, debt strikes, cooperative ventures, encrypted conversations that did not route cleanly through their predictive nets. The algorithms flagged them as inefficiencies.
But inefficiencies can compound.
For the first time in centuries, a few reptiloids experienced an unfamiliar sensation as they reviewed the models. A flicker. A discomfort in the chest cavity. Not fear exactly — more like a phantom warmth pressing against cold scales.
They had optimized everything except one variable:
What happens when the surface remembers that the young are not fuel?
If the citizens above ever reconnect the missing trillions to the missing futures — if they trace the tunnels of capital back to their insulated chambers — the underground cities will no longer protect their architects. Stone does not stop consequences forever.
The reptiloids built their empire in the dark to avoid the heat.
They forgot that warmth, once rekindled, spreads.
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