STEP BROTHER DEAREST
“Pretenders again. Only this time, they’re organized. If they fracture while the city watches, people will get crushed in the fallout. That’s worse than a direct enemy. That’s chaos dressed up as hope.”
I watched the projection flicker, lines of light outlining streets, towers, and the places where the so-called Reflections had gathered. “They think rhythm can be copied like a dance. They don’t understand that it isn’t steps—it’s trust, it’s conscience, it’s knowing when to move and when not to. But if they convince people otherwise, they’ll undo everything we’ve built.”
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