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Chapter 292 The Silence of the Statue
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2026-05-08 00:15:08The vibration didn’t come from the air. It traveled through the soles of Leo’s scuffed boots, up the silver-mercury wiring of the dais, and into the resonant chamber of my obsidian chest. High above the Golden Basalt dome, the sky was a bruised void, but below, the ley-lines hummed with a heavy, rhythmic thrum.
I sat unmoving. My fingers, once capable of mending a child’s woolen peacoat, were now unyielding pillars of translucent quartz fused to the armrests. I did not blink. I did not
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Marek’s grip was a dead weight on Leo’s shoulder, a desperate anchor of flesh trying to hold back the tide of the inevitable. The Alpha’s fingers trembled against the soot-stained wool of the boy’s peacoat, his scent of terrified musk and wet fur spiking in the stagnant air. Behind them, the statue of Aria—the Obsidian Queen—sat in a silence so thick it felt like a physical pressure against the eardrums. Her voice, still echoing with the melodic, stolen honey of the 14-B virus, promised a peace that tasted of the grave."The Queen speaks, boy," Marek rasped, his eyes bloodshot, fixed on the unmoving quartz discs of my eyes. "She says the Archive is the only way. Don't touch the manual override. Don't wake the mountain again. Look at her—she’s finally at rest."Leo didn't look at the Alpha. He didn't even blink as the first bone-white claw of the Collector vessel scraped against the open ceiling of the Grand Hall. His gaze
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