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Chapter 178: The Omega Override

Auteur: R.J. Sterling
last update Date de publication: 2026-03-29 00:15:53

The silence following the airlock’s seal was a physical assault, a vacuum that tasted of Ryan’s last breath and the iron-salt stink of a five-hundred-year-old debt finally paid in full.

I leaned my stone shoulder against the bone-quartz hatch. On the other side, the man who had sheltered me in New York, the man who had tried to own the miracle, was being crushed by the Pacific. I didn’t cry. Mercury don't make for good tears, and I had no human eyes left to weep with.

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