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Chapter 15 – The Awakening Code

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For a few seconds, the darkness was absolute. The kind that swallows sound, thought, breath.

I couldn’t see Damien, but I could hear him—shallow, controlled breaths and the faint click of metal as he drew the small gun from his jacket.

“Don’t move,” he whispered.

“Wasn’t planning to,” I murmured back, though my voice was thinner than I wanted it to be.

The screen still glowed faintly, a square of pale light in the dark room. SERAPH PROTOCOL: REACTIVATED.

“What does that mean?” I asked, squinting at the words.

Damien was already moving, flashlight beam slicing through the gloom. “It means he built something down here. Something we just woke up.”

I swallowed hard. “Define ‘something.’”

Before he could answer, the hum of the servers shifted. The quiet whirr became a low, rhythmic pulse, like the place had found a heartbeat. The temperature dropped another few degrees, and the fine hairs on my arms stood up.

“Damien…”

“I know.”

Then the footsteps came again—closer this time. Not running.
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