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Chapter Fifty-Two: We’re Being Watched by Someone Who Knows Lucan Never Died

Author: Becca Williams
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-06-16 16:34:36

Nova wasn’t supposed to be working.

But sleep never came easily after Archive votes, especially ones that rewrote legal identity structures.

She sat cross-legged in her lab, fingers ghosting over the terminal, when she noticed it.

Not a spike.

A thread.

Quiet.

Too regular to be background noise.

She expanded the loop.

Signal source: INTERNAL.

Not external.

Not satellite-fed.

Someone was bouncing resonance from within the Archive relay system itself.

Nova’s heart jumped.

She froze the frame.

Buried under six layers of encryption was a pulse beacon she hadn’t seen in years:

LV–01.RTN

Lucan’s last known identifier.

And it was active.

She opened the encryption spiral, but the loop was self-erasing intelligent resonance that collapsed if forced.

Nova didn’t force it.

She waited.

And after six seconds

the loop restarted.

This time, audio.

Faint.

A whisper.

Just one line:

“I never left. Just had to stop being seen.”

Nova stood up slowly.

Not afraid.

But certain.

Lucan wasn’t dead.

He had em
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