Aria’s POVThe test sat on the bathroom counter like a small, glowing prophecy.Two lines.Clear. Unmistakable.I stared at it for a long time, longer than necessary, as if the meaning might rearrange itself if I didn’t look too directly. My reflection in the mirror looked different—not physically, not yet but there was something in my eyes I didn’t recognize. A softness. A kind of stunned gravity.Pregnant.After everything after Elias, after revolutions disguised as meetings and wars disguised as algorithms I was facing the most human, most ancient transformation of all.I laughed quietly, then covered my mouth with my hand when the laughter turned into something dangerously close to tears.Of course the universe would choose now.When there was no system left to predict outcomes.No intelligence left to simulate the future.Just me. And a life growing inside me that no model could optimize.I walked back into the bedroom where Rico was still half-asleep, hair messy, one arm thrown
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