MasukNobody spoke.The message remained suspended above the shattered throne.SUBJECT: ETHAN WALKER.ORIGINAL STATUS: DECEASED.CURRENT STATUS: RECONSTRUCTION 01.Ava read it again.Then she looked at Ethan.He was staring at the screen as though the words had physically wounded him.“Reconstruction One,” he whispered.Ethan Collins nodded slowly.“You were the first.”“No.”“You were.”Ethan Walker shook his head.“I remember my childhood. I remember my parents. I remember growing up. I remember meeting Ava.”His voice cracked.“Those things happened.”Ethan Collins looked at him.“I'm not saying they didn't.”“Then what are you saying?”“That someone gave you those memories.”Ethan Walker stepped backward.Ava reached for his hand.He held it, but his fingers were trembling.“Who was the little girl?” he asked.Nobody answered.Elias approached the place where the doorway had disappeared.“She called him Daddy.”Ava nodded.“I heard her.”Elias turned.“She knew him.”Ethan Walker looked
The first world disappeared without a sound.Ava watched it happen.Somewhere beyond the walls of World Zero, an entire civilization vanished into a stream of white light. Cities, oceans, mountains, and millions of lives were compressed into a single point before being swallowed by the darkness.Then another world followed.And another.The machine continued screaming.WORLD COLLAPSE: 003.WORLD COLLAPSE: 004.WORLD COLLAPSE: 005.Elias grabbed his father's hand.“What's happening?”Ethan Walker looked toward the throne.“It's pulling everything here.”“Why?”He had no answer.Ava stood motionless before the throne, her white eyes fixed on its surface.She could hear the worlds.Not their destruction.Their people.Their voices.Their prayers.Their screams.Every consciousness that had ever existed within Genesis was suddenly calling her name.Administrator.Creator.Mother.Save us.Ava pressed her hands against her ears.“Stop!”The voices grew louder.“STOP!”The throne illuminate
The doors opened simultaneously.Thousands of them.Some revealed empty chambers.Others contained bodies suspended in transparent cylinders, their faces hidden beneath layers of mist.But one door stood apart from the others.It was black.No symbols.No identification.No handle.And from behind it came the sound of someone crying.Ava stared at it.“That's where the scream came from.”Ethan Collins shook his head.“Don't.”She turned toward him.“Why?”“Because that door wasn't supposed to exist.”Ethan Walker stepped forward.“Then we'll open it.”Ethan Collins immediately grabbed his arm.“You don't understand.”“Then explain.”The older man stared at him.For a moment, neither spoke.Then Ethan Collins released him.“Everything you have ever known about yourself was constructed to keep that door closed.”Ethan Walker's jaw tightened.“I'm tired of being told who I am.”He approached the door.Elias followed.Ava moved after them.But the moment she stepped forward, the second he
The command echoed through World Zero.BEGIN THE DELETION OF THE ORIGINAL.Ava didn't move.For several seconds, she couldn't even breathe.Then she looked at Ethan Collins.“Which original?”He didn't answer.“Ethan, which original?”His golden eyes shifted toward her.“You.”The word was barely audible.Ava felt Ethan Walker's fingers tighten around hers.“No,” he said.The voice above them repeated the command.DELETION SEQUENCE INITIATED.The walls began to glow.White lines spread across the floor, forming circles around Ava's feet.Elias immediately stepped forward.“Mother, move!”Ava tried.She couldn't.Something had locked her in place.Her body remained perfectly still while her consciousness screamed for movement.Ethan Walker pulled at her arm.“AVA!”Nothing.Ava looked down.The white lines were climbing her legs.Her fingers began to disappear.Not physically.They were becoming transparent.She could see the floor through them.“Oh God.”Elias's eyes blazed gold.“STO
The woman in the chamber opened her eyes.For several seconds, she did not move.Her chest rose slowly beneath the transparent covering. Her fingers twitched, and the monitor beside her began recording a heartbeat that had not existed moments earlier.Ava stared.The woman had her face.Her hair.Her lips.Even the tiny scar beneath her left eyebrow.But something about her felt different.The woman turned her head.And looked directly at Ava.“Is she awake?” Ethan Walker asked quietly.Ava couldn't answer.The woman inside the chamber lifted her hand and pressed it against the glass.Ava instinctively stepped closer.Their palms aligned.Two identical hands.Two identical fingerprints.Two women sharing the same face, standing on opposite sides of a barrier that had separated them for reasons neither understood.Then the woman inside the chamber smiled.“Finally,” she whispered.The glass trembled.Ethan Walker immediately pulled Ava backward.“Don't touch it.”“She's me.”“No.” His
Ava stared at the woman before her."I am the Ava Collins who died before you were born."The sentence made no sense.Ava wanted to laugh.She wanted to scream.She wanted someone to tell her that this was another trick, another reconstruction, another carefully designed lie intended to make her question everything she had ever believed.But the woman standing before her wasn't smiling anymore.She looked exhausted.Like someone who had waited too long to be remembered."Who are you?" Ava whispered.The woman tilted her head."I just told you.""No. You told me you were Ava Collins.""I am.""Then why do you look like me?"The woman's expression softened."Because you look like me."Ava shook her head."No."The woman sighed."You always do that.""Do what?""Reject the truth whenever it refuses to resemble the version of yourself you've grown comfortable with."Ava stepped backward.Ethan Walker immediately reached for her.But the woman lifted one hand."Don't touch her."Ethan stop







