Once they signed, there was no backing out.The pen in my hand was a live wire; the code around us was a storm. Every directive I’d jammed into the system—CONSENT, MERCY, CHOICE, LIMITED CYCLES, NO ETERNAL CORES—glowed with a flickering, unstable light, rollback tags trying to wake back up and getting slapped down by the weight of our names.“Now what?” Jax panted. “We just… hope it sticks?”“Hope is not a strategy,” Selene said.“No,” I agreed. “Writing is.”I lifted the pen again.The game surged in protest.Script lashed out—thin tendrils of code snapping toward my arm like vines. Corvin stepped in, sword a blur, chopping through them. Each severed strand evaporated in a puff of static, but more reached.“Do it,” he said, every line of him braced between me and the Admin. “We’ll hold.”I focused on the space around the core directives I’d already altered.The skeleton was there.Now I had to give it flesh.I wrote faster, the words less literal now, more like signposts the system w
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