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CHAPTER 21

Auteur: Edna Ozibe
last update Dernière mise à jour: 2025-07-31 14:35:03

Carl stayed by Lena’s side.

Even as her power surged, even as her voice shifted mid-sentence, even when she screamed and it wasn’t her voice anymore.

“I know you’re still in there,” he whispered.

But who was he talking to?

The real Lena?

Or the fragments of the girl he loved?

Nina warned him, gently. “If it comes down to it… you’ll have to choose.”

Tobias said nothing, but his eyes were grim.

Velgrave prepared evacuation protocols. The students, still recovering from the last war, were terrified.

Because Lena Wolfe glowed like a star at midnight.

And the system inside her was waking up.

In a hidden corner of the academy, Ophelia found herself.

Not metaphorically.

Literally.

Inside Lena’s mindscape — a vast empty library built from scattered neural data — Ophelia stood across from Lena.

“I thought you were just… code,” Lena said.

“I am. But I’m also me.”

“And you’re breaking me apart.”

“I don’t want to.”

“Then why don’t you leave?”

Ophelia’s face was broken. Tired.

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