"You're the floor," he whispered. His voice dropped, taking on a metallic resonance that pressed heavily against the stagnant air. "And nobody is allowed to break my floor again."I stared without blinking, trapped behind immovable, gold-veined obsidian. I could see everything. The silver-mercury conduits lacing the bedrock of Rebirth City pulsed as my own extended nervous system. When the boy fractured and the Sovereign took hold, the tremor ran straight into my foundation. His boots dug into the stone. I tasted his cold, airless resolve.Another rhythm rasped through the chamber—a jagged, wet wheeze reeking of sour rust and rotting meat.Kael.He slumped against the central reactor's reinforced bulkhead. The silver-salt neuro-toxin had mapped its way across his torso, leaving a bruised, terminal purple in its wake. He swallowed mud with every breath, choking on his own fluids. His core integrity hovered at zero. His organs were liquifying in a slo
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