Replaced by His First Love
“Mommy! It’s cold! The quiet uncle is gone!”
The emergency lights flickered on—not the white light of the Watchers, but a terminal, necrotic red.
Ryan stood ten feet away, his bio-synthetic face half-melted, the machine underneath exposed by the power surge. He looked like a nightmare. He looked like the logic I had once trusted, now revealed to be a graveyard.
“You broke heaven, Phoenix,” Ryan whispered, his bionic eye spinning frantically.
“No,” I said, drawing my silver blade, the metal glowing gold with the resonance of three dead Primes.
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