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Chapter 56: Before the Return

作者: Mira Livelle
last update publish date: 2026-06-16 11:25:51

Silence was not absence.

It was compression.

Emma felt it squeezing her from every direction, folding her consciousness inward like paper being pressed into a shape it had never agreed to become.

The Architect’s final command still echoed inside everything:

“Fragment retrieval commencing.”

Then—

Nothing.

And then—

Something worse than nothing.

Awareness without form.

Emma was no longer standing.

No longer falling.

No longer inside the sea of forgotten realities, nor beyond the Gate, nor anywher
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