Chapter 70: The Siege of LagosThe Atlantic coast of Lagos was usually a symphony of crashing waves and distant Afrobeats, but tonight, it was silent. A dead, artificial silence that signaled the arrival of the Aegis Pulse.Caspian and Jade didn't arrive by boat or car. They walked out of the surf, two silhouettes of silver and white light dripping with seawater, stepping onto the private beach of the Vance Villa.The sight that met them was a nightmare.The villa—once a masterpiece of glass and tropical greenery—was surrounded. In the air, dozens of Sentinel drones hovered like mechanical vultures, their violet sensors scanning the perimeter. On the ground, the Old Guard’s Reapers had set up barricades, their sonic cannons pointed not outward at an enemy, but inward, at the nursery wing."They've turned our home into a cage," Caspian hissed. His scorched skin was healing at an accelerated rate, the white-light energy under his veins pulsing with a rhythmic fury."It’s not just a cage
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