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CHAPTER 26: A Mirror That Breathes

Penulis: Myra TUC
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As though sensing her approach, the tower let out a moan.

Subject Zero. She didn't interrupt. I, she wasn't obliged to.

She crept inside the building like a shadow, humming through the broken wires, slipping through wall cracks, and seeping into the circuits.

Malek stepped back from the control panel. He shook his voice and said, "She just killed the system." She isn't working on it. She is growing into it.

Tyra stood by the steps, eyes hard, blade out. “She's still not quite tangible. She will be, though.”

Kieran shifted to my side. “Kaia. Don’t confront her alone if she is attempting to take over your head once more.”

I gave a nod. But I knew in my heart something that none of them knew. My mind was no longer being invaded by zero. She made a knocking sound. It was me who unlocked the door.

Then the room grew dark.

All became motionless. As if waiting, the dust in the air also froze.

Next…a sound, not footsteps.

Not dialogue. Something whispered inside my skull.

“There's no need for
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