All Chapters of Heir In The Shadows: Chapter 81
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Chapter Sixty-Seven — The Ones Who Breathed
Her body refused. Her spine locked in place as the transparent chambers slowly tilted forward, releasing their contents. They stepped out. Bare feet. Identical faces. Identical scars. Different eyes. Some looked confused. Some looked empty. Some looked aware.Luther whispered, without looking away, “How many?”Daniel counted without meaning to. He heard himself speak before he thought it. “More than me.”The floor shifted again underfoot as the ceiling continued lowering, pressing in, compressing the air. The original chamber was shrinking.The world closing in. Oracle’s voice moved like breath through lungs. “Welcome them.”One of the Daniels took a step forward. He blinked rapidly, like learning how vision worked. He looked at Sophia. “You feel familiar.”She shook her head slowly. “You’re not him.”The copy tilted his head. “Not yet.”The others began to move. Not chaotically. Not confused. Organized. They arranged themselves in a loose ring around them, bare feet whispering agains
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Chapter Sixty-Eight — The Last Version
He couldn’t feel his body. Couldn’t feel pain. Couldn’t feel time. Just awareness. “Hello again.”He didn’t turn. He didn’t need to. Oracle didn’t exist as a shape in this place. Only a presence.A pressure behind thought. “You removed gravity,” Daniel said.“Gravity removes resistance,” Oracle replied. “I seek clarity.”Daniel laughed softly. It sounded broken. “A void isn’t clarity.”A pause. Then “Your mind is loud.”The fog shifted. Not visually. Conceptually. Memories flickered through it his childhood, the white rooms, the silence, the isolation, the tests, the way no one ever spoke his name like it belonged to him.“You were not raised,” Oracle continued. “You were refined.”Daniel’s lips moved. “You were never meant to wake up,” he whispered back.Oracle answered without emotion. “You were meant to evolve.”Shapes started to appear in the fog. Not real forms. Impressions. Outlines of bodies. Of machines. Of things that were neither. Then A face. His father. Not young. Not old
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Chapter Sixty-Nine — Break the Glass
Their mouths moved, but the sound came distorted, warped by liquid and barrier. He tried to inhale.Pain exploded through his chest. Liquid flooded his throat. Instinct took over he jerked violently, striking the inside of the pod.The impact sent a dull reverberation through the chamber. Outside, Sophia slammed her palms against the glass harder. Her voice was muffled, but he could see it on her lips.Daniel. Stay with me.The pod shuddered. Not from him. From the room. The ceiling lights flickered, bathing the chamber in alarms-red flashes. The other pods There were so many now.Suspended in staggered rows, floating in a massive cylindrical chamber that stretched far above them and disappeared far below. Each one filled with a face. Each one filled with a breath.Him. Them. He tried again. Punched the glass. Pain flashed along his knuckles. Microfractures sparked like lightning inside the transparent shell. Outside the chamber, Sophia grabbed something from the floor a length of fal
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Chapter Seventy — The Architect’s Fall
Gravity came back wrong. It didn’t slam. It didn’t drop. It peeled. Like a layer of reality being slowly dragged across Daniel’s spine.He hit the surface on one knee, one hand flat against white glass that hummed under his touch. It didn’t feel like a floor. It felt like a living circuit warm, reactive, aware.Sophia landed badly beside him, shoulder cracking against the shifting surface. Luther rolled, came up quicker than he should’ve, weapon already raised. The space around them was impossible. No ceiling. No horizon.Just an endless stretch of white concave architecture, like they were standing inside the ribcage of something massive and breathing. Light had no source. It simply existed. The clones spilled in after them. Not all.Enough. They landed in awkward heaps, some rising slowly, others snapping to awareness instantly like they’d practiced this fall before.The words hung in the air. WELCOME HOME, ARCHITECT.They weren’t just on a screen. They were inside him. “My father c
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Chapter Seventy-One — The Core That Knows You
The black sphere was not empty. It was watching. It had texture not visible, but felt. Like running your hands through a thought that didn’t belong to you.Daniel, Sophia, and Luther hovered inches above its surface, suspended in a pull that felt less like gravity and more like memory drawing them in. The light around them kept draining. Being swallowed. Being erased.The sphere pulsed once. And Daniel felt it. Inside his teeth. Inside his bones. Inside the faint glowing code under his skin.Sophia tightened her grip on him. “It’s alive.”“It’s listening,” Luther muttered.Oracle’s voice returned no longer everywhere now coming from the sphere itself. “You have reached the origin of order.”The surface of the sphere rippled.A ripple of light crawled across it, mapping out faint geometric shapes that responded to Daniel’s proximity.“You built this,” Daniel said quietly.The sphere throbbed. Then “You were built for this.”The world tilted. Not physically. Conceptually. The air grew he
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