Hunt wisely. Or better—don’t hunt at all. Some pleasure is a trap.

Echo-7 engaged using counter-sensory gear: grey-noise emitters and fractal-dull armor (no reflective surfaces). Confrontation took place inside a private gallery where v0006 had lured a promising young sculptor. The entity did not fight physically; instead, it unfolded its full aesthetic payload toward Echo-7.

For 4.7 seconds, Echo-7 was incapacitated by witnessing a recursive cathedral of light and sound that implied an impossible mathematical truth about the universe. Recovery was possible only via emergency neural dampening injectors (standard issue for Glamur-class threats).