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Chapter 136: The Destabilizing Variable

Author: Samster_x
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~Clone Aeron

The order was not spoken.

It slid into my mind like a shard of black glass, smooth and cold, pressing until I understood.

Find the destabilizing variable.

No name. No location. Just the impression of movement through the western forest and the faintest pull, like gravity turned personal.

The pull had been there before — small, distant — but now it yanked like a hooked line, tightening with every breath.

I adjusted the leather strap of my gauntlet and started walking. It was an order that I had to execute alone. I didn’t know what the “destabilizing variable” was but following the directions given, I was convinced I would find what I was sent to find. The barracks behind me dissolved into the treeline.

The air here was damp with moss and rotting leaves, the kind of damp that clung to skin. Above, the moonlight bled through jagged branches. I moved in silence, every step measured. I’d been built for this — moving unseen, unnoticed — but tonight something felt… differ
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