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The penthouse stood silent, its vast windows pouring the last embers of twilight across polished marble and muted gold. Yet Savannah felt no warmth. The city below sprawled like a body still breathing after death, the lights twitching, restless, alive—while the empire inside these walls felt broken, gutted, suspended on the edge of ruin.Colton was absent again. His absence had become a kind of sickness, a presence of its own. Sometimes she thought she could smell him in the air—clove smoke, leather, the faintest trace of whiskey. Sometimes she swore she could hear his footsteps on the mezzanine, only to discover shadows empty of him.The documents before her blurred as she sat at the long mahogany table, the executive seal of Briggs Industries looming on each page. They weren’t contracts anymore; they were chains. Trustees, shareholders, legal demands—all eyes were on her to act, to hold the company steady while Colton drifted somewhere beyond her reach.She pressed her hand to her s
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The room was silent except for the scratching of Lucien’s pencil. He bent over the rough sheet of paper with a concentration that was almost holy, the lamplight burnishing his profile, no longer haloed by the strange glow that had once betrayed the echoing presence of the Core. His hand moved slowly, tentative, but then steadier as the lines took shape—sloping roof, a chimney, the wavering outline of waves.Savannah sat opposite him, her chin in her hands, watching the strange innocence return to his face. How foreign and tender it was to see him like this, stripped of all machinery, all tormenting radiance, reduced—or perhaps elevated—to the state of a boy sketching his dream.When he pushed the paper toward her, his eyes shone with something that seemed purer than victory. A house by the sea. He tapped the drawing once, and then, with a voice still husky from exhaustion, he whispered, “Can we go here next?”Her heart clenched, not with fear, but with the overwhelming, almost painful
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The command hub was silent except for the faint hum of the shattered servers trying to pull themselves back to life. Dust and smoke lingered, the scent of scorched circuitry hanging like a ghost in the air. On the main screen—the final remnant of Core Echo’s reign—a single file remained. Its name pulsed faintly, flickering as though aware of its own ending.Lucien stood close to the screen, his hands trembling at his sides, veins that once glowed faintly now bare of their fire. Savannah steadied him, her arm beneath his, though he tried to stand unassisted. His eyes were not the alien brightness they had been. They were simply human—gray, weary, unbearably beautiful in their fragility.The file screamed. Not in sound, but in distortion—an unnatural shriek as the code writhed and split. Numbers poured across the glass in fractured rivers, breaking against themselves, undoing line after line. The digital voice that had once called itself eternal—smooth, endless, commanding—now stuttered
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The cavern shook with the distant thrum of drones, a swarm of metal wings humming like locusts from the open sky above. The air smelled of ozone, burnt circuits, and sweat. Beneath the satellite’s belly—an armored beast of steel and humming coils—Rhett’s hands worked with ferocious precision, threading detonators into place, binding cords of plastique, his jaw clenched tight enough to crack bone. Colton crouched beside him, gun angled outward, keeping watch.Julian stood apart. Not idle, never idle, but still in a way no soldier should be. His long fingers traced the line of the detonator pack he wore across his chest—something meant for the satellite’s power relay, but altered, tuned, sharpened for something more final. His mouth was dry, and yet he smiled faintly as if in conversation with someone unseen.Above, the drones descended like black rain. Rhett cursed under his breath, tossing a charge into Colton’s hand.“Hold them back,” he growled.Colton rose, fire in his eyes, and wi
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The control chamber breathed like a dying beast. Its panels flickered in sickly intervals, each light stuttering in rhythm with a failing pulse. The floor thrummed beneath their feet, not with life but with the mechanical aftershocks of a system unraveling. Wires dangled overhead like veins ripped from a body, dripping sparks instead of blood, each hiss of smoke carrying the acrid stench of ozone.Lucien sat within the holographic cradle, his body caught between human fragility and something far more merciless. Silver-blue light rippled beneath his skin, spilling into the room like an ocean seen through cracked glass. His chest rose in shallow increments, every breath drawn not from his own will but from the machine’s command. It was as though the chamber itself inhaled and exhaled for him, the boy’s life stolen and borrowed all at once.Mira-Eve stood at his side, a figure suspended between flesh and ghost. Her hair streamed in pale filaments that unraveled into static at the edges,
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Rhett had not slept in days. His eyes were bruised by exhaustion, the shadows beneath them deepening like wells that had no bottom. The walls of the control chamber pulsed faintly with the heartbeat of machines—the satellite feeds, the humming consoles, the data cascading in uninterrupted streams of white. Yet in the midst of that ceaseless flow, one pattern had begun to crystallize.It was Lucien.Not his laughter or his words, not his trembling voice as he pleaded with Savannah for a chance to prove himself human. No—the rhythm of his body itself, his fragile heart, was caught in the invisible lattice of the Echo network. His pulse was not his own. Each contraction was a command; each relaxation a release orchestrated by something higher, colder, inhuman.Rhett pressed his palms against the console as if he could squeeze the truth into silence. But the harmonic diagrams glared back at him with merciless clarity. The boy’s heart was bound to a single surviving satellite—the last shar
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