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Chapter 9: The Threshold

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“Full separation protocol engaged.”

The words did not just echo through the room. They settled, heavy and irreversible, as though the system itself had made a decision that no one could take back.

Lyra pulled her hand away from the partition this time, not out of instinct, not out of fear, but out of awareness. Something in her had already adjusted, and already understood that this moment, this exact point was different from everything that had come before.

This was no longer testing. This was
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