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Now Or Never

ผู้เขียน: Authoress Funky
last update วันที่เผยแพร่: 2026-06-02 01:30:52

Chapter 197

The gray, shifting film of the dark void clung to me like a second skin, refusing to let go. I waited for the familiar pull back into my bedroom light, the crisp edges of my calculated world snapping back into place. But it didn’t come. Instead, everything fractured.

The clean geometric lines of the optimization matrix dissolved into nothing, and I was dropped into something heavy, suffocating. The air smelled of wet timber and rusted iron, thick enough to taste on my tongue.

My b
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