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2025-06-02 15:01:40Chapter 60: The Vaultbound Rise
The air in the underground chamber was thick—heavy with dust, expectation, and centuries-old secrets that clung to the stone walls like ivy. The Vault of Remnants had not been opened in over four decades, and its presence felt more myth than matter. But tonight, it pulsed.
Isla stood in front of the vault door, her fingers twitching unconsciously. Behind her, Christopher and Ethan watched in silence, the tension among them as brittle as ancient parchment. No one spoke. Even the hum of the generators seemed to hush.
She could feel it now—the magnetic tug that seemed to know her name. The lock on the vault was encoded to Lyra’s genetic signature, but the tech didn’t account for what Lyra had become. What Isla had become. Half her mother’s legacy, half... something else.
Christopher stepped forward. "Are you sure you want to do this tonight? You’re still healing."
She shook her head. "Healing is a luxury. And time is a blade pressed to our throats. I can feel it inside me—the key, the echo of her voice. I have to try."
Ethan remained silent, arms folded. He’d said his piece earlier, voicing concern over what the vault might unleash. But he knew better than to stand in Isla’s way now.
She placed her hand against the biometric pad. It blinked red once.
A pause.
Then green.
The grinding of gears began, ancient machinery waking from slumber. The vault door let out a low groan and split open, unveiling a long corridor lined with blue, pulsating lights. The air that poured out was colder, older—like stepping into the lungs of a sleeping beast.
Isla took a step forward, then another. Every light that illuminated the path reacted to her presence, flickering, almost bowing. Behind her, Christopher and Ethan exchanged a glance before following.
"What is this place?" Ethan whispered.
"Not just a vault," Isla murmured. "A memory chamber. A place Lyra encoded pieces of her mind."
At the end of the corridor stood a pedestal surrounded by floating shards—glass? Crystals? Memory fragments?
Isla approached the pedestal and reached out. One of the shards floated into her palm and sparked. Her eyes flared silver.
"Isla?" Christopher moved closer.
She didn’t hear him. In her mind, the world around her melted. She saw Lyra—young, furious, desperate—arguing with someone cloaked in shadows.
"They’ll find her!" Lyra shouted in the vision. "They’ll try to rip her apart to study what I’ve hidden. But she’ll be more than they expect. She’ll be what ends it all. Or begins again."
The shard snapped, turning to dust in Isla’s hand.
She gasped, stumbling backward. Christopher caught her.
"What did you see?" he asked.
"Confirmation. A prophecy she buried with herself. I’m not just a continuation... I’m a decision."
"A decision?"
Isla stepped back, eyes shining with something fierce. "To destroy what made me... or to evolve it. To free others like me, or erase the code from existence."
Behind them, a low rumble echoed. More shards had begun to hover in the air, circling the room.
Ethan frowned. "You opened the vault. But what if you also woke something else?"
As if on cue, the lights flickered.
And from deep within the corridor behind them, something breathed.
Not a gust.
Not a tremor.
A breath.
Alive.
Isla turned slowly, heart hammering. She looked at Christopher, then Ethan.
"We’re not alone in here."
The vault had opened.
And something had answered.
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