[The Mother’s Lie]The voice didn't just vibrate in the air; it blossomed inside my chest like a parasitic flower, tearing through layers of trauma I had spent a lifetime building. It was the sound of bedtime stories and scraped knees, a ghost wrapped in silver and gore that called me by a name I had almost forgotten. Standing in the dying heart of the Sovereign flagship, I felt the ground fall away, not because the ship was sinking, but because my reality was shattering.The silver brain—the Hive Core—pulsed with a warm, amber light that felt sickeningly like a hearth. Around us, the obsidian walls of the flagship groaned as they took on water, but inside this dome, the "Sync" had transformed into something intimate and terrifying."Ivy, look at me," the voice whispered, emanating from the mass of fused skulls and shimmering tissue.Dante stood beside me, his obsidian arm locked in a defensive stance, but even he looked shaken. His silver-tech eye was whirring, trying to find the tri
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