Before the world breaks, it pretends it won’t.Elena Voss had seen that before.In systems.In people.In herself.---Denial always came first.---Then fear.---Then division.---The shift didn’t stay hidden for long.---It couldn’t.---What began as quiet change—---Became impossible to ignore.---The threads had spread too far.---Touched too many.---Changed too much.---And now—---The world was reacting.---Elena stood in the still-forming space, the entity beside her glowing with a steady, living pulse.---No longer fragile.---No longer uncertain.---But not fully understood either.---“It’s happening faster than we thought,” Adrian said, his voice tight.---Elena nodded slowly.---“Because people can feel it now.”---A pause.---“They don’t need to see it to know something’s wrong.”---Victor stepped closer, his expression unreadable.---“Not wrong,” he corrected.---“Different.”---Elena didn’t argue.---Because to most—---Different felt like wrong
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