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Chapter 38: Awakening

Author: Comet
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-03-30 08:17:41

The device flared white.

For an instant, the world had edges so sharp they cut—rain in razored shafts, rock in planes of black glass, the river below flicked into a ribbon of light like metal drawn from a forge. The flare didn’t blind Kiera; it revealed, like someone had peeled the night back to show the frame beneath.

Sound went thin.

Pressure thickened.

The mark at Kiera’s neck didn’t merely burn—it answered. A jolt tore through her nerves, precise as a command. Something old and engineered u
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