HIS POISONOUS POSSESSION
he murmured against my lips, his thumb dragging across the silver brand on my neck.
"Always," I whispered, our shared nervous system singing a suicide pact in the dark.
The ceiling of the Spire didn't just collapse; it was peeled back by a massive, magnetic force.
A silver tether—jagged, liquid, and moving with the speed of a lightning strike—launched from the belly of the descending Sovereign ship. It didn't target the relay. It didn't target the fleet.
It aimed for the Architect.
I watched in frozen, soul-shattering horror as the silver harpoon punched straight through Dante’s obsidian shoulder, the metal barbs locking into his cybernetic nerves with a wet, mechanical thud.
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