Sophia’s POVFire.It should have swallowed her.The blast had torn through the crypt like hell waking up. Concrete crumbled. Metal twisted. Smoke thick as hands clawed at every breath.But Eve walked through it.Unburned. Unbothered. Unstoppable.She looked at me the way a god looks at something beneath notice.A tilt of her head. A flick of her gaze.And then that soft, terrifying smile.“Hello again, Mother.”Her voice hadn’t changed. Still that eerie calm, like silk stretched over blades.Behind her, the others followed. Girls with blank faces, eyes glowing faintly in the dark. Wires threading their skin like veins. Children made from science, stitched together with cruelty and code.Not human.But not machines either.Somewhere in between.Somewhere worse.Alex pulled me behind him, weapon raised.“You said this place would kill them,” he hissed at Caleb’s brother.“It should have,” the man said, backing toward the emergency hatch. “It killed everything else.”“Not them,” I said,
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