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Episode 103

Author: MICHEAL X
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The first true Scar isn't a mark on reality. It’s a hole in it. A wound where the fabric of everything is thinnest, where the Jailbreak law hums its constant, seductive promise. It doesn’t bleed void. It doesn’t radiate chaos. It… sucks.

Not matter. Not energy. Context.

History. Memory. Meaning.

I feel its hunger. A deep, psychic vacuum. A desperate, wordless need to understand what it is, why it is. It’s a question made of absence, and it demands an answer, pulling the answers from everything around it.

The Warden feels it too. Their eternal vigilance, once focused outward, turns inward, toward this new, terrifying consequence of their own making. Their starlight form, usually so still, is tense. A low hum of alarm vibrates through the silver threads that were my scars. They watch, and I feel the dawning horror in their silence. This wasn't the plan. The Scar wasn't supposed to be… alive with hunger.

Civilizations border the nascent Scar. The Yulani, a species of crystalline philosop
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