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Episode 78

Author: MICHEAL X
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-07-31 12:36:10

Every step sends jagged pain up my legs—my scars reacting to the Reality Loom's pulse. The Child moves ahead of me, their starlight dimmed to near-invisibility in the null-shielded corridors. They flicker at each security node, fingers dancing across access panels with eerie precision. The doors sigh open. Too easy.

"They want us inside," they whisper inside my skull.

I know. The Archivist's always been a spider. Likes her prey close before she strikes.

The final door slides back to reveal the Loom.

It's worse than I imagined.

A vast, spinning ring of stolen energies—Void Seed fragments pulsing like diseased hearts, strands of Weeping energy stretched taut like harp strings, vials of my tissue glowing in suspension. At its center, a single throne.

The Archivist sits there, smiling.

"Lily." Her voice is polished bone. "You're just in time."

The Child steps between us, their form flickering with contained fury. "This abomination won't work."

"Oh, it will." The Arch
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