The revelation that Miller Vane was not only alive but the architect of the "Great Hunt" acted like a corrosive acid on the siblings' morale. As they ascended from the Emerald Labyrinth, leaving the safety of the trees for the cold, clinical steel of the upper city, the silence between them was heavy. Leo led the way, his amber runes glowing with a low, dangerous thrum that seemed to vibrate in the very concrete beneath his boots. "He wouldn't do this," Maya whispered, her golden light flickering. "The father who built the Silverwood, who taught us about the balance... he wouldn't sell us to the UN as 'resources'." "The father we knew died in the Billionaire Tower," Kaelen rasped, his eyes fixed on the distant, glowing needle of the UN Summit Building, a structure made entirely of reinforced 'Smart-Glass' that overlooked the ruins of Old Tokyo. "The man on that stage is a ghost wearing his skin. Or worse, he’s the man he always was, and we were just too young to see the wires
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