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Chapter 69: Gods and Machines

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CHAPTER 69 — GODS AND MACHINES

POV: Aidan

The sky splits into two philosophies.

Gold.

And geometry.

Severiel hangs above the flooded street like a star pulled down from heaven, his wings stretched wide enough to blot out the storm clouds. Every movement of those wings bends the rain sideways, as if the atmosphere itself is trying to obey him.

Above him, the alien lattice reacts.

Thousands of pale lines rearrange across the sky, forming enormous shifting structures that look less like ships and
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