Waking up to my sin
"When he hit that console, he didn't just short-circuit the building. He fed a feedback loop into the gene-driver in his own blood. He burned the bridge from both sides. The markers are dormant. The Architects have no root-user left to claim. We’re finally, truly, ghosts."
The "spicy" tension that had been a jagged, electric current during the fight in London didn't vanish; it transformed into a heavy, molten gravity. I looked at the man who had lied to me for ten years, the man who had just dismantled an empire and snapped my brother's neck to get me back, and I felt a surge of raw, explicit hunger that made my pulse spike.