The heavy oak door of the palace library remained firmly shut against the noise of the waking kingdom. Inside, the room was dim, lit only by the pale morning light filtering through the tall glass windows. Aurelia sat alone at a massive wooden reading table, surrounded by stacks of recovered files, medical logs, and old maps that smelled of dust and dried chemicals.Her fingers trembled slightly as she opened a thick black leather binder labeled Project Chimera: Phase One.Since the seven laboratories had lit up across the horizon, Aurelia's mind had been trapped in a storm of fragmented memories. Every time she closed her eyes, she was pulled backward into the cold, blinding white of the underground cages. But today, the magic of the recovery crystals was pushing deeper, forcing her to see things she had spent her whole life blocking out.As she stared at the faded ink on the pages, a strange pressure built behind her temples. The room seemed to dissolve.
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