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The Silver Awakening

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CHAPTER 24: THE SILVER AWAKENING

The world didn’t go black. It went silent.

The scream I expected to rip from my lungs was caught in a vacuum of silver light. When the pulse-pistol discharged into my own chest, it didn't tear through flesh and bone. Instead, it hit the "Elena-Seed" like a lightning bolt hitting a conductor.

I felt the backup consciousness—the cold, parasitic ghost of my mother—shriek as it was vaporized by the very energy it had tried to harvest. The black diamond at my throat
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