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Chapter 20: Mercy Is a Weapon

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The ship tore through orbit like a blade through silence.

Below them: Earth. Peaceful. Fragile. Unaware.

Above: the second Nexus satellite, designated WRATH, spinning slowly into full deployment. Its surface was armored in obsidian plating, glowing with heat signatures that shouldn't have existed outside a warzone.

Inside the cockpit, no one spoke.

Not until Sera broke the silence.

“We’re not going there to destroy it,” she said. “We’re going to reach it first.”

Lira raised an eyebrow. “Then what?”

“I'll talk to it.”

Adrian looked over his shoulder. “You talk to a kill protocol?”

“She was built from me. Just like the shard was. Just like the clone.”

Elias turned in his chair. “Serathis isn’t like before. WRATH wasn’t designed to adapt. It was designed to execute. Fast. Final. No questions asked.”

“Exactly,” she said. “So I’m going to give it a question it can’t answer.”

They reached it in under seven minutes.

WRATH loomed before them, a monolithic weapon satellite nearly ten times the
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    The child was silent.Eyes wide. Breathing shallow.Wrapped in a thermal blanket from Adrian’s pack, she clung to Sera’s side as they moved through the Cradle’s collapsing hallways. The facility’s emergency grid was failing. Heat was dropping by the second. Gravity had begun to buckle, drawing debris into quiet spirals along the floor.But the girl, barely nine, biologically perfect, wasn't afraid.She was watching.Studying.“Does she have a name?” Adrian asked gently, walking beside them.Sera looked down at her.The girl tilted her head slightly, a perfect mirror of Sera’s own expression.“No,” Sera said. “But I think she’ll choose one.”Behind them, Syra walked in silence. Disarmed. Wounded. Not by a weapon but by what she had lost.“She was the only version I made without Mira,” Syra whispered, her voice jagged. “No directives. No subroutines. Just pure structure. Built from your echo.”Sera didn’t respond.Syra went on anyway.“She would’ve been better.”Sera stopped walking.Tu

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