The city hummed quietly beneath Damian and Eli, a fragile calm after the storm of fractured loyalties. Streetlights glimmered softly, the hum of energy flowing through stabilized systems echoing faintly in Damian’s chest. But beneath that calm, an unfamiliar pulse tugged at Damian—a remnant from the past, subtle yet insistent, like a whisper threading through the tower’s energy. Eli noticed instantly. “You feel it, don’t you?” His hand pressed against Damian’s chest, grounding him. “Something… from before. It’s disturbing your rhythm.” Damian exhaled slowly, glowing pulse flaring faintly. “Yes. I thought it was gone. But something—or someone—has resurfaced. And they know us… too intimately.” The pulse wasn’t an attack, not yet. It was a message: a signature embedded in the city’s energy grid, a trace left deliberately to be found. Damian traced it carefully, every movement calculated, every surge of tower energy measured, while
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