The silence that followed the collapse of the Arch-Logic-Arbiters was not peaceful; it was heavy, pressurized, and sounded like the dying hum of a massive electrical grid. The sapphire fire of the reactor had settled into a low, pulsing violet, but the "Observation Ring" was a wreckage of shattered glass and scorched mercury. I crawled across the vibrating walkway, my "Twilight Glass" armor cracked and leaking a thin, silver smoke. My hands, usually steady with the muscle memory of a thousand clinical procedures, were shaking so violently I had to pin them against the glass to stop the tremors.“Leo? Liam?” My voice was a dry rasp, barely audible over the tectonic groans of the mountain as it adjusted to its new, organic nervous system.I reached the twins. They were sprawled on the iridescent moss that had sprouted from the reactor’s cooling vents—a final, reflexive gift from the ship’s biological overdrive. They looked small. Too small. The towering, golden presence that had held
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