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Chapter 55: Probability Drift

Author: jk_Francis
last update publish date: 2026-02-22 21:28:22

CHAPTER 55 — PROBABILITY DRIFT

POV: Ezra

The world doesn’t calm down after the

negotiation.

It recalibrates.

Which is worse.

For three days, nothing supernatural happens.

No pressure in the air.

No humming in the bones.

No sky fractures.

And that silence becomes its own kind of tension.

News cycles slowly shift from “Divine Event” to “Global Phenomenon Under Investigation.”

Scientists publish speculative papers about atmospheric lensing. Governments deny knowledge. Religious leaders double do
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