The Bride of the Wrong Name
One side steady, ordered, controlled; the other chaotic, unstable, invasive.
“Elara, stop,” Adrian said, hearing it in her voice. “You’re hurting yourself.”
“I don’t have a choice,” she said sharply, fighting to hold the line. “If I don’t do this, they take everything.”
Victor muttered under his breath, “…This keeps getting worse.”
The divide deepened. Inside her mind, the system fractured—not breaking completely, but separating into two distinct flows, one aligned with her, the other infected, twisting and pushing back. The moment the split completed, everything hit at once.
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