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Episode 58

Author: MICHEAL X
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-28 16:53:35

To the west, the Golem Collective – earth mages chanting, streets rippling like disturbed water, stone facades peeling away to form lumbering, faceless sentinels that crush parked cars like tin cans. Screams. Real screams. Not echoes. People trapped. Dying.

The Child stands beside me on the crumbling roof ledge. Not a child. A conduit. Their eyes are wide, unblinking, reflecting the city’s pyre below, but seeing something else entirely. The Weaver’s tapestry. Threads of fire, threads of earth, threads of screaming life-force snapping and tangling into a knot of pure annihilation. Their small body thrums with power. My power. The power they pull through me, the anchor point for their cosmic balancing act.

"Strain threshold approaching critical," they murmur, their voice layered, distant. Not theirs. Not entirely. "Factional energy matrices destabilizing local reality substrate. Collapse probability: 87.3%."

The strain . Oh god, the strain. It’s not just the Child pulling power.
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