LILA’S POV“…emotional cascade event spreading uncontrollably across all consciousness layers.”The pain hit all at once.Not physical.Worse.It crashed through the network like a tidal wave made of emotion fear, grief, loneliness, rage, confusion millions of feelings colliding together without walls to contain them.And because I was connected to the coreI felt all of it.I dropped to my knees instantly, a scream ripping out of me before I could stop it.“LILA!”Nathan’s voice reached me through the chaos, distant and desperate.The threads around me surged violently, flickering gold and black like a storm tearing itself apart.It hurt.God, it hurt.Not because the emotions were evil.Because they were real.Too real.Every hidden wound inside the network was surfacing at once.Every abandoned memory.Every suppressed fear.Every desperate need to belong.My chest tightened so painfully I thought I might disappear inside it.“They’re drowning,” I gasped.Nathan appeared beside me
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