The Parisian night draped the city in a shimmering veil of lights, but at the top of an abandoned building repurposed into a fortress of steel and silence only the echo of a classical melody reigned. "La mission était un succès," Amélie Lacroix murmured, setting her precision rifle on the weapons table with the same delicacy a ballerina might use to place her pointe shoes. Her iPad screen confirmed what she already knew: the German politician lay cold in a Berlin alley, his last breath choked by the blackmail Talon so loved to exploit.

She stripped off her tactical suit, her blue skin glowing in the room's neon lights, and donned a form-fitting training uniform. Her personal sanctuary, a pristine training room surrounded by mirrors that reflected not only her figure but also the fragments of a life no longer hers, awaited her.

The combat drones activated upon detecting her presence. "Débutons."

Her movements were a whirlwind of lethal grace: spinning kicks that shattered metal torsos, evasions fluid as silk in the wind, precise shots fired mid-impossible pirouettes. Every motion, every controlled breath, was calculated perfection… until, for just a moment, the rhythm felt too familiar.

In the mirror, amid the smoldering wreckage of the drones, an ethereal figure danced. A young woman with chestnut hair, dressed in a white tutu, performing an arabesque on the stage of a forgotten theater. "Non…" Amélie stiffened, her knuckles whitening beneath her blue-tinged skin. The music swelled now, drowning out the faint hum of her own slowed heartbeat.

"Putain de souvenirs…" she spat, shattering the overhead spotlight with a single, precise shot. Glass rained down like crystallized tears.

Silence returned. The ballerina vanished.

Only Widowmaker remained, breathing deeply, cold sweat clinging to the nape of her neck.

"Amélie est morte" she whispered to the void, tightening her ponytail with hands that, for a second, had trembled. "Je suis l'ombre maintenant."

And as if nothing had happened, she reactivated the drones.

Training had to continue.