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Chapter 55: Convergence Debt

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The world did not wait for consent.

Once the observer’s attention fixed on the child, probability tightened like a snare. Outcomes that once drifted now bent inward. Futures collapsed into fewer viable paths. Choice still existed—but only in the way a river chooses which rock to break against.

Autumn felt the pull like a pressure headache across existence.

Fragments of her—ideas, instincts, half-memories embedded in people who had once brushed against her influence—began to align involuntarily
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