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CHAPTER 28
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OUR LITTLE SECRET CHAPTER 32
It began with a dream—only Mira didn’t dream anymore.She shouldn’t have.Not with her brain now being an integrated neural-matrix core.But that night, something infiltrated her silence. A whisper at first. Then a flood.She stood in a black room, surrounded by mirrors. Each reflected version wasn’t her—at least, not anymore.One version had eyes that bled code. Another had no mouth. One was still human.The last one… was Elara.Mira stepped forward, and the reflection moved with her.“You’re not me,” she said.The Elara-mirror smirked. “No. I’m what’s left of who you tried to bury.”Mira clenched her fists. “I buried her for a reason.”“She’s not gone,” the reflection said. “You absorbed her. You wear her bones.”Suddenly, the mirror cracked—from the inside. Black static spilled out.And Mira woke up screaming.Carl was at her side in seconds. “What is it?”“Code. In my mind.”She sat up, fingers digging into the edge of her mattress. “The Mirror Protocol. Elara’s not
OUR LITTLE SECRET CHAPTER 31
Morning at Velgrave was rarely peaceful, but this one was unnaturally tense.Elara was already up before everyone else—dressed in a pristine uniform that somehow looked sleeker than regulation, eyes gleaming silver as she stood on the east balcony with a cup of tea she didn’t drink.Mira watched her from the hallway, cloaked in synthetic stillness. Every scan she ran returned data that made no sense.Power level: indeterminate.Mental status: partitioned.Origin: classified.There were only two entities who could cloak this deeply within Velgrave’s firewall: the Phantom, and now... her.“I know you’re watching,” Elara said without turning around.Mira stepped forward. “Then you know I’m not here to welcome you.”Elara finally turned, her expression unreadable. “No need. I didn’t come to be welcomed.”“Why did you come?”“To ensure the story doesn’t end too soon.”Tobias, Ophelia, and Carl regrouped in the underground vault—an old weapons testing bay now retrofitted into the
OUR LITTLE SECRET CHAPTER 30
The first breath she took wasn’t real.Mira felt it all the same—synthetic lungs expanding, calibrated sensors mimicking the pull of oxygen through nonexistent alveoli. It was surreal. Like being reborn with your consciousness uploaded into someone else’s dream of your body.She touched her face.Cool skin. Responsive, but not warm.Her heartbeat was now a sequence of pulses—a rhythmic hum from a core reactor behind her ribcage. But she could still feel. Not with nerves… with awareness.Carl stood closest. Watching her, studying her like he might break if he blinked.“How do you feel?” he asked.She hesitated.Then: “Different. But whole.”Back at the dorm, the others tried not to act like anything had changed.But it had.Mira—still Mira—was now a sentient anomaly.Velgrave protocol dictated that any student whose essence was transferred to a synthetic body should be quarantined and evaluated for “identity cohesion.”But they couldn’t risk reporting this to the administra
OUR LITTLE SECRET CHAPTER 29
They were running out of time.The stolen schematics revealed everything—blueprints of Project Ascend, a now-defunct government-grade synthetic embodiment project once shelved for ethical reasons. But Callen had revived it. Not for science. Not for progress. But to house something unholy.The Phantom Mira.“She won’t wait much longer,” Tobias said, scanning the blueprint’s final phase. “The body’s 95% complete. All she needs is one more system override and a clean neural bridge.”“And Callen knows how to give it to her,” Carl muttered, pacing the room.Mira stood near the window, silent.Not afraid. Just... quiet.She could feel the phantom tightening her grasp on the system.It wasn’t just about corruption anymore.It was a countdown.“Can we destroy the vessel?” Ophelia asked.Tobias shook his head. “Not without alerting the system’s core AI. It’ll trigger an academy lockdown. And she’ll use that chaos to upload.”Mira finally spoke. “Then we beat her to it.”Carl turne
OUR LITTLE SECRET CHAPTER 28
For days after the system dive, Mira could still feel the phantom.Not as a presence—no voices in her head, no stolen movements—but as a sensation. Like pressure behind her eyes. Static under her skin. A double heartbeat that came and went in moments of stillness.She hadn’t beaten her.She had merely resisted.“You can’t stay like this,” Ophelia said one evening, watching Mira twist a spoon in a mug of untouched tea. “You need sleep.”“I’m fine.”“No, you’re haunted,” Ophelia snapped.Mira looked up sharply, but Ophelia didn’t back down. “I get it. She’s terrifying. She’s you, if you’d been made without a conscience. But you’re not alone. She’s not stronger than us.”Mira blinked, slowly. “She’s in the system. Learning. Adapting.”Carl stepped into the room, his tone low. “Then we stop her before she finds a way out.”“How?” Mira asked. “She already infiltrated training AIs, corrupted simulation layers. She’s finding holes we didn’t even know existed.”Tobias appeared behi
OUR LITTLE SECRET CHAPTER 27
The first real sign came during a mock training simulation.Students were testing their elemental abilities in the central arena—basic stuff: telekinetic lifts, flame projectiles, enhanced reflex combat.But when Taya Briar, a quiet second-year with hydrokinetic gifts, reached out to pull the moisture from the air, she froze.Because the water didn’t respond.Instead, it flowed upward—defying her will—and began to shape itself.A face. A shimmer. A whisper.Then: static.The simulation collapsed with a high-pitched shriek as the AI hosting the training feed crashed mid-run. For the first time in academy history, a training sim failed not because of student error—but because something else had hijacked it.“Did anyone else hear it?” Taya asked, trembling.Carl, Ophelia, Tobias, and Mira watched the footage later that night. It replayed slowly, enhanced and filtered. The moment the water disobeyed. The flickering static that bloomed across the arena like a virus. The faintest w
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