ESSENCE: Desire Without Permission — My Rivals, My Red Flags
SYSTEM RELOCATED.
His blood ran cold. The parasite hadn't died. It had jumped.
"Sarah," Anji gripped her arm, hauling her toward the stairs, his movements no longer smooth, no longer governed by the digital grid, but jagged and hurried—human, in all its flaws.
"What is it?" she asked.
"It wasn't a loop," he whispered, watching as a localized node in his peripheral vision shimmered with a predatory, violet heat. "It was an egg."
They hadn't killed the parasite. They had just freed it from its nursery, and now, it was finally out of the server vault and loose in the veins of a dying metropolis. The Ivory Tower was no longer its home; the entire, unmanaged city had become its playpen.
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