The download wasn't a stream; it was a tsunami.When the Red-Queen connected her mind to mine, she expected to drain a battery. Instead, she tapped into a storm. The Origin-Code wasn't static data it was the raw, chaotic creative force of the universe that the True Architects had gifted us. It was the wind on the highway, the unpredictable slide of a tire on wet asphalt, the messy, unquantifiable feeling of love.To a system built on order and control, it was poison.The Queen’s voice glitched in my head, shifting from a chorus of hundreds to a screeching feedback loop. In the physical world, her composite body jerked back, the digital red dress flickering violently."You... you are corrupt!" she screamed, her face cycling rapidly through the stolen visages of Tank, Sienna, and Isabella, all of them contorted in confusion."I'm not corrupt," I gritted out, hanging suspended in the magnetic field, my veins glowing with a blinding, sapphire light. "I'm O
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