Bound by Voices
> “Mira…?”
“I’m here.”
“I—I couldn’t hear them anymore. It’s so quiet.”
“That’s what it means to be human again.”
He smiled weakly. “It hurts.”
She brushed his hair back. “It’s supposed to.”
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Outside, the shared link collapsed.
People woke sobbing, disoriented, suddenly alone again.
The world had relearned solitude—painful, precious, real.
And somewhere deep beneath the city, the collective voice whispered once more, faint but defiant: