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Episode 98

Author: MICHEAL X
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A Garden. My Garden. But… wrong. So terribly wrong. The vibrant, weeping chaos of my wild growth is mirrored here in razor-sharp order. Crystal trees grow in mathematically precise grids, leaves like shards of stained glass catching sterile light. Rivers flow in straight lines, bubbling with engineered nutrients, devoid of sentient fish or whispering currents. Vines snake with predatory efficiency, thorns gleaming like surgical steel. It’s a Null Garden. Cloned. Grown from the tissue they scraped off me during a hundred captures, a thousand experiments. My stolen flesh, twisted into this… this parasite.

The pull intensifies. A grinding suction deep in my cosmic gut. It’s not just draining. It’s claiming. Recognizing its source material. Seeing me as… fuel. A component to be assimilated. My realm shudders. Mountains groan as if roots are being pulled. Rivers slow, their waters pulled towards the geometric horror looming in the void. Failure isn't death. It's becoming lunch for my own r
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  • BOUGHT BY CRUELEST ALPHA   Episode 99

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  • BOUGHT BY CRUELEST ALPHA   Episode 98

    A Garden. My Garden. But… wrong. So terribly wrong. The vibrant, weeping chaos of my wild growth is mirrored here in razor-sharp order. Crystal trees grow in mathematically precise grids, leaves like shards of stained glass catching sterile light. Rivers flow in straight lines, bubbling with engineered nutrients, devoid of sentient fish or whispering currents. Vines snake with predatory efficiency, thorns gleaming like surgical steel. It’s a Null Garden. Cloned. Grown from the tissue they scraped off me during a hundred captures, a thousand experiments. My stolen flesh, twisted into this… this parasite.The pull intensifies. A grinding suction deep in my cosmic gut. It’s not just draining. It’s claiming. Recognizing its source material. Seeing me as… fuel. A component to be assimilated. My realm shudders. Mountains groan as if roots are being pulled. Rivers slow, their waters pulled towards the geometric horror looming in the void. Failure isn't death. It's becoming lunch for my own r

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