HIS STOLEN PRIDE
People called it The Wake, as if the planet itself was grieving a god.
Lucia worked through the nights in what used to be the living room, surrounded by piles of shattered hardware. She hadn’t said much since they left LionTech. Sometimes he caught her staring at the old laptop that had last carried Elena’s message, her expression unreadable. The golden shimmer was gone from the city, but not from his mind. Every shadow felt charged, every silence too deliberate. When he closed his eyes, he could still see Elena standing in the square—hair glowing, eyes half-human, half-light. The sound of her voice, remember me, haunted the edges of his dreams.
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