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Chapter 30 – Reflection Protocol

Author: JDHWS
last update publish date: 2026-01-08 21:25:14

The night Elias felt the trigger was the night he stopped dreaming.

It began as a flicker.

Not pain.

Memory.

A hallway he had never walked. A scream he had never heard. The smell of iron and ammonia.

And then a voice—not his own—whispering from the inside:

“Do you remember what you were built for?”

He woke in cold sweat.

The sheets were tangled. The pillow torn. A fine trail of blood at the edge of his temple from where he’d scraped against the nightstand.

The mirror across the room caught his
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