Nathan staggered through the rubble-strewn control room, heart pounding, ears ringing from the explosions and the city-wide power surge. Smoke curled in the air, dust coating every surface, the fragments shattered beside him like broken promises.“Alina!” he shouted, voice raw, echoing against the walls. The silence that answered him was suffocating.Then he saw it — one of the monitors flickered faintly. Not a video feed, not a recorded image, but her handwriting, glowing faintly on the cracked glass interface:I’m still here.Nathan’s chest tightened. He stumbled toward the monitor, pressing his palm against the glass as if he could touch her through the cold technology.“She’s in the network,” Lara whispered from the corner, voice small and fearful. “She… she didn’t come back.”Nathan’s jaw clenched. “Then we bring her back. Now.”1 — Entering the NetworkThe fragments, though cracked and dormant, still hummed faintly in his hands. Nathan realized their power wasn’t gone — just lat
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