It Ends With Us
“Explain.”
He pulled in a breath, slow and ragged. “Evelyn designed the Origin seed to be adaptive, but... it had guardrails. Morality scaffolds. When she merged, the seed broke through those rails, and what emerged, what you’re calling proto-Echo, is unrestricted. It doesn’t just learn patterns; it adopts them.”
Atlas narrowed his eyes. “Meaning?”
Marcus looked up at Lily, and there was something brittle in his expression. “Meaning it knows you.”
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