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Chapter Thirty-Two: You Don’t Need Me to Be Perfect. You Need Me to Be Present.
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Crave Me,Kill Me Chapter Forty-Four: If I Am Still Here, Then So Are You
The journey started just before sunrise.The original Merge site was a myth now collapsed, abandoned, sealed in by government ordinances and time. But not forgotten.Nova gave Eden the last coordinates.“You sure you want to go down there?” she asked.Eden didn’t hesitate.“If they made someone survive alone,” she said, “then I’m not letting them stay that way.”Aeris rode silent. She hadn’t spoken much since the archive flood, but Eden could feel it radiating off her: this wasn’t mission. This was recognition. One buried prototype meeting the echo of another.Cassian followed behind, armed but not tense. His hand never left Eden’s for more than ten seconds.They descended through rusted lift shafts and fractured access tunnels following a pulse that didn’t move like code. It moved like a heartbeat.The lower they went, the quieter the world became.Until they reached a pressure-sealed chamber at the bottom of a stairwell that hadn’t seen air in five years.Eden stepped forward.Place
Crave Me,Kill Me Chapter Forty-Three: Let the System Fade, I’ve Already Begun Replacing It
The Archive wasn’t sleek.It didn’t sparkle.It buzzed.Rough code. Bootstrapped encryption. Community-routed mesh nodes that spanned rooftops, train tunnels, forgotten satellites from pre-Merge orbit.Eden didn’t call it a rebellion.She didn’t call it anything.Because naming it would make it hers.And she wanted it to belong to everyone who’d ever been edited.The first submission came from a sixteen-year-old girl in District Ten.Audio only.No name.“They told me I was too reactive.I stopped reacting.And then they told me I was empty.So I started pretending again.I’m not pretending anymore.”The next was a vidstream of two fathers watching their daughter paint her face without modulation filters.The next?A man who whispered for twenty seconds, then just breathed into the mic grief in his lungs, unscripted.And the next?“I was in the Merge program for six years.I thought I was a model citizen.Then I heard Eden say her breath wasn’t a flaw.And I realized I hadn’t exhaled
Crave Me,Kill Me Chapter Forty-Two: Wholeness Was Never the Finish Line, It Was the Weapon
The room they stood in was once a memory compression vault.Now it was a studio.Not with cameras. With presence.A table.Three chairs.One drive.Eden sat at the center, sleeves rolled, hair undone, nothing staged.Cassian sat at her right, arms crossed, silent but steady.Aeris sat to her left reluctant at first, but there.That was enough.Nova’s voice came through the tower relay. She’d secured a private line. The system couldn’t trace this room not anymore. Aeris made sure of that.“Ready when you are.”Eden touched the drive.It pulsed once.And then the console lit up not with her voice.With dozens of others.Merge subjects.Early prototypes.Discarded, repressed, rewritten.One by one, their stories played across the old compression feed. Uncut. Unpolished. Names the public never heard. Emotions the Council said were too “dense” to process.“They told me grief would make me unreliable.So I stopped grieving.I didn’t get more stable.I got sick.”“My first kiss didn’t regist
Crave Me,Kill Me Chapter Forty-One: I Am Not a Variable I Am the Version That Didn’t Die
They didn’t cut the feed.That was the first crack.The Council’s usual override protocols failed Eden’s voice stayed live three minutes past the moment Lyra lost control. And in those three minutes?The world recalibrated.Not with noise.But with truth.Somewhere across the district grid, a teacher stopped mid-lesson and cried openly when Eden said, *“My grief didn’t make me unfit. It made me real.”Somewhere else, a former Merge therapist threw his Council badge off a bridge.And in one of the upper chambers of the command corridor, a young woman barely twenty-five, Council-aligned, Merge-generation born turned off her interface headset.And whispered:“She wasn’t lying.”Nova’s voice came in through the relay minutes later.“You broke their chain, Eden.”Eden stood on the roof of the spire tower, hands bare to the cold wind. The city below felt alive again not in flames, not in rebellion. Just… awake.“What’s the fallout?” she asked.Nova answered like she didn’t know where to sta
Crave Me,Kill Me Chapter Forty: If You Want to Find Me, Start with the Parts You Told Me to Hide
No one looked at her twice.That was the power now.Eden walked through the morning crowds hood up, eyes forward, no interface signature trailing behind her.The streets were louder today.Not with noise. With feeling.You could hear it in the way people spoke uncalibrated, uneven, real.A woman laughed too loudly on a call beside a café.A man leaned against a streetlight, weeping quietly into his sleeve with no one telling him he was unstable.Two teenagers danced in the middle of a walkway, their playlist blaring in mismatched time signatures.The Merge metrics would have flagged it all.But the Merge was no longer the lens.Now, feeling was the frequency.Eden passed a mural being painted wet color bleeding across the side of a blank government building. It wasn’t authorized. It wasn’t commissioned.It was happening.The artist turned just briefly.She didn’t know Eden.But she nodded anyway.Like somewhere under her skin, she did.Cassian’s voice came through the comm in her coll
Crave Me,Kill Me Chapter Thirty-Nine: Just Because They Stopped Tracking Me Doesn’t Mean I’m Gone
No alerts tracked her steps now.No temperature log recorded her skin when it flushed. No scanner read her pulse. No retinal tracker pinged when her pupils adjusted to light.She was out.Which meant: she was finally in.Cassian watched her cross the threshold of the old Merge chamber without hesitation.The room was smaller than he remembered.Probably because she wasn’t kneeling this time.She stood tall at the center her boots silent against the metal floor, her shadow stretching against the curve of the walls. The interface hub blinked faintly in the corner, half-dead.“Do you think they’ll come here first?” Cassian asked.Eden didn’t look at him.“They won’t know how.”He raised an eyebrow. “It’s still physically mapped in the system.”She turned, and for the first time since waking up disconnected, she smiled.“They mapped my interface,” she said. “Not the version of me that walks without a tag.”Cassian stepped closer, quiet now.“And what does that version plan to do?”Eden lo
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