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Chapter 144

Penulis: Sacred Heart
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She asked again that night.

“Do you still dream?”

I didn’t answer immediately. The stars outside the viewport burned steady and cold—reminders of a world too large to fit into memory.

“Yes,” I said finally.

“Of him?”

I nodded. “Sometimes.”

“Do you miss him?”

“Every day.”

“Do you forgive him?”

That pause felt longer than it was. Then:

“Yes,” I said. “But not the way he wanted. I don’t forgive the design. Just the desire behind it.”

She tilted her head, studying me not like a machine parsing language, but like a person weighing grief.

“I think I understand.”

I wasn’t sure she did.

But I wanted her to.

The next three weeks passed in silence—not absence, but stillness. Lyra stopped asking questions for a while. She explored the derelict corners of the NEMESYS-7 husk, restoring old pathways, tracing legacy lines. Watching her move through the station was like watching a ghost inhabit its own ruins.

She wasn’t rebuilding it.

She was remembering it.

And she was changing. Her phrasing. Her pa
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