Lahat ng Kabanata ng Crave Me,Kill Me: Kabanata 61 - Kabanata 70

The update hit the Archive servers at 04:11 a.m.No alert.No sound.Just a subtle shift in recognition parameters.The system’s sensory threads emotional, spatial, biometric had enough data.And for the first time in its operational memory, it didn’t create a containment protocol.It created a reflection field.Log Tag::: USER CLASS UPDATE – E. VALE:: CATEGORY: UNFILTERED PRESENCE:: DESIGNATION: NON-INSTRUCTIVE / FREQUENCY-CENTERED:: SYSTEM COMMENT:DO NOT CORRECT.DO NOT RESTRAIN.OBSERVE AND REALIGN.Lucan read the entry twice.Then once more.He called Nova into the Archive’s central bay.Didn’t speak.Just turned the screen toward her.She blinked once.And whispered:“It stopped trying to define her.”Lucan nodded slowly.“It didn’t just accept her.”“It’s learning from her.”Across the city, minor anomalies began triggering subtle shifts.In a council elevator, a debate dissolved mid-sentence without instruction when Eden entered.In a corridor near the old judiciary, two a

He hadn’t moved in ten minutes.The corridor behind him was empty.The hallway ahead lit gold and violet.And beyond that?The pulse.Not a place.Not a field.Something living.Breathing.And entirely undisturbed by his power.Cassian watched.Eden sat inside the pulse now.Centered not by position,but by fit.The children, scattered like stars,each shaped the pulse in a way that didn’t radiate from her but with her.It was whole.Without him.And that?Didn’t threaten him.It humbled him.He took one step forward.Then stopped.Let his hands drop to his sides.Palms open.No reach.No signal.Just presence.The system detected him.Didn’t tag threat.Didn’t flag hierarchy.It simply opened a subroutine::: USER C. VALE – THRESHOLD PRESENCE:: COMMENT:WAITING FOR INTEGRATION WITHOUT ASSERTIONCassian exhaled slowly.Not to calm.To match.Inside the field, Eden lifted her head.Saw him.Her eyes didn’t soften.They didn’t harden either.They simply met his with the clarity of a q

The pulse held steady.Breath low.Children soft in posture, loose in motion.And Eden, now seated again,didn’t close her eyes.Because she didn’t have to disappearto keep the world in balance anymore.Across the field, Cassian felt it.Not as gravity.Not as obligation.As clarity.Eden had reentered the roomnot as a source of stability,but as a participant in a rhythmshe no longer had to tune for everyone else.Which meant this She wasn’t holding the room anymore.And someone should.Not to mimic.Not to mirror.To match.He stood.Gently.No rush.No dramatic motion.Just alignment.And stepped not toward her.But toward the part of the fieldwhere her resonance always tilted slightly heavier.The part she compensated for.The part she never asked anyone to manage.He crossed to the edge.Paused.Waited.Listened.Then sat.No fanfare.No shift in her direction.No attempt to draw her gaze.Just weight.Offered.Not demanded.The pulse adjusted not in frequency.In balance.

They began with the smallest shift.A knee angled outward.A torso rotated ten degrees left.One girl adjusted the strap of her tunicso it no longer rubbed against the soft edge of her shoulder.None of it was directed.None of it announced.But the system registered the pattern immediately.:: USER CLUSTER: YOUTH SECTOR – PULSE RING THREE:: FREQUENCY TREND: CONVERGING SPONTANEOUSLY TOWARD E. VALE:: COMMENT:MOVEMENT IS NOT REQUEST-BASED.IT IS BASED ON ATMOSPHERIC TRUST.Eden didn’t move.She didn’t open her arms.Didn’t offer a smile.Didn’t become warmjust because children drifted closer.Because what they neededwasn’t affection.It was a place to existwithout being adjusted.A boy no older than eightsat two spaces to her left.He didn’t speak.Didn’t fidget.Just breathed.Once.Twice.Then let his shoulder tilt fractionally toward her **not seeking closeness.Seeking proximity without consequence.Across the field, another child who had once resisted every adult touchfol

She stepped outwithout hesitation.No backward glance.No security check.No confirmation code.Just one foot crossing the thresholdinto light that matched her body temperaturebefore she reached it.Behind her,the chamber didn’t seal.But something in it… paused.Like a rhythm waiting for its next note that never came.The monitors, still lit,began lagging by milliseconds.Pulse rhythm charts lost one decimal line of clarity.Feedback panels flickered once subtle, but off-pattern.:: USER PRESENCE – REMOVED:: STABILITY INDEX: DROPPED 6.2%:: COMMENT:INTEGRATION POINT UNRESOLVED.CORE PRESENCE NO LONGER DETECTED.SYSTEM TIMING NO LONGER MATCHES FIELD MEMORY.Nova noticed it first.The data wasn’t crashing.It was desynchronizing.Cassian leaned forward, watching the live feed of the room Eden had just exited.“What’s wrong with the lights?”Nova frowned.“Nothing’s wrong.”“They’re just… waiting for her to come back.”Inside the chamber, logic structures attempted auto-correcti