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The staircase descended beneath Origin.Elena ran.Amara was ahead of her.Elias followed close behind.Above them, the sky thundered.The Watchers had arrived.Adrian wasn't there.That was the only thought Elena couldn't silence.“Wait!”Amara didn't stop.“Elena, keep moving!”“Adrian is still on Earth!”“I know.”“Then I have to go back!”Amara finally stopped.She turned.“If you go back now, they will capture you.”“Then I'll fight.”“You don't understand what they are.”Elena stepped closer.“Neither do you.”Amara stared at her.Then smiled.“You really are a Cross.”The First CityThey reached the bottom.The staircase opened into an enormous underground chamber.Elena stopped.A city lay beneath them.Not ruins.Not abandoned buildings.A living city.Thousands of lights illuminated impossible structures.But unlike Origin above, this city looked ancient.Stone towers.Massive bridges.Symbols carved into every wall.At the center stood a circular structure.Amara pointed to

The message remained suspended in the darkness.THE WATCHERS ARE NOT THE ONES COMING THROUGH.THEY ARE RUNNING FROM SOMETHING.Elena stared at it.“Dad?”Nothing.“Marcus!”Static answered.The connection was gone.Adrian stepped beside her.“We need to get back to Earth.”Amara shook her head.“Not yet.”Elena turned sharply.“My father just warned us that something is coming.”“Exactly.”“Then why are we standing here?”“Because if you open the bridge now, you'll give that thing a path directly to Earth.”Elena stopped.Adrian looked at Amara.“So the bridge isn't an entrance.”“No.”“What is it?”Amara looked at Elena.“A door.”The Other SideThe First City trembled.Ancient lights flickered along the walls.The seven remaining Arc

“I'll destroy it.”Elena's words echoed through the First City.Amara stared at her.“You don't know what you're saying.”“I know exactly what I'm saying.”“You destroy the Covenant, and you may destroy every connection between Earth and Origin.”“Good.”Amara's expression tightened.“Adrian is connected to that network.”Elena stopped.That was the one argument that could reach her.“If I destroy it…”“You could lose him.”Elena looked down.For several seconds, she said nothing.Then she raised her head.“Then I'll find another way.”Amara smiled faintly.“That is the answer I was hoping for.”The Covenant's Last SecretAmara led Elena deeper beneath the First City.They entered a chamber that looked nothing like the others.No machines.No screens.Just seven stone pi

The message remained on Mara's screen.CLAIRE CROSS IS AWAKE.Elena couldn't breathe.Her mother had been dead.At least, that was what she had believed.For years, Claire Cross had existed only in fragments—photographs, old recordings, half-finished explanations and memories Elena could never completely trust.Now there was a signal beneath the house where Elena had grown up.And it carried her mother's name.Adrian looked at her.“Elena.”She didn't answer.Eva stepped closer.“You want to go there.”Elena finally looked at her.“Yes.”Adrian nodded.“Then we're going.”The HouseThey returned to Earth through the stabilized connection.The moment Elena stepped outside, the air felt different.Normal.Almost painfully normal.Accra continued around them.Cars moved through the

“We have been waiting for you.”Elena couldn't breathe.The words came from hundreds of mouths.Hundreds of identical faces stared back at her from the chamber.Adrian's face.His eyes.His scar.Even the small crease beside his left eyebrow—the one Elena had once traced with her thumb when he was asleep.Except these men weren't Adrian.At least, not the Adrian standing beside her.He tightened his grip around her hand.“Don't move.”One of the duplicates stepped forward.Elena's heart hammered.“Adrian?”The real Adrian stared at his double.For the first time since Elena had known him, genuine fear crossed his face.“I don't know them.”The duplicate smiled.“You know us.”Adrian's jaw tightened.“No.”“You were the first.”A second duplicate spoke.“Then came the fai