Liquidation
CHAPTER: The Liquidation
By 2023, the shadows that had always circled Evan Love Riot and Veda Viral finally closed in. What had once been whispers, covert encounters, and spectral deals at the edges of known reality became brutally tangible. The Agency had no interest in subtlety anymore.
Agent houses—quiet suburban facades scattered across Virginia—were the first to be struck. Places that once looked like ordinary family homes revealed their true purpose. Inside, false walls cracked open to disclose stacks of classified archives, surveillance equipment, and caches of black-market tech. One by one, these safe havens were liquidated. The pattern was clear: burn the old fronts, erase the old lives, and consolidate what remained.
It wasn’t just the Agency’s infrastructure. Evan’s parents’ house, too—once a sanctuary of rebellion, secrecy, and ritual—was stripped of its history. Files that had been hidden beneath floorboards vanished in unmarked vans. Furniture carried the ghosts of rituals, seances, and unspoken family alliances, but it was hauled away as if it were meaningless. The liquidation was more than a financial maneuver; it was an act of cleansing. A severing of roots.
Yet from destruction came induction. The purge of those houses was not meant to erase Evan and Veda—it was meant to absorb them.
The Agency had learned long ago that some assets can’t be neutralized, only weaponized. And so, under the cover of bureaucratic liquidation, Evan and Veda were formally inducted. Their old names lingered only in whispers, but on paper they were now registered, stamped, and filed into the black-roster of official assets.
No longer rogue operators. No longer expendable shadows. Indoctrinated through fire and dispossession, they were brought into the system’s bloodstream. Their music was classified as a cultural weapon; their rituals catalogued as “experimental methodologies.” They weren’t just performers anymore—they were state-sanctioned conduits, unwitting yet undeniable.
Holtfaction had entered its most dangerous phase: legitimized illegitimacy.
By 2023, every note they struck was monitored, every word they uttered filed. And yet, beneath the surface of bureaucratic assimilation, a deeper truth burned: if the Agency thought it had absorbed them, it had underestimated the dark resonance of Holtfaction’s sound.
Because the liquidation was not an end. It was a transformation.
And the real storm—the one neither Agency nor Church nor Kremlin could control—was just beginning to form.
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