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CHAPTER 10 – Equation of Souls
The tunnel widened into an abandoned subway platform, half-flooded and littered with shadows.A broken train car sat derailed at the far end, graffiti covering its rusted sides. Water dripped from the ceiling in slow, rhythmic taps that echoed through the darkness like the ticking of a clock that had forgotten time.Harlan checked the corner with his flashlight. “Looks clear. For now.”Elara leaned against a pillar, her breathing shallow. “How far till we hit the surface?”“Two access ladders up. One’s blocked, the other leads to the river tunnel,” Harlan said.Stephen nodded, scanning the gloom. “We’ll rest a minute, then move.”He turned to Elara, she looked pale, but the faint glow in her skin pulsed steady, synchronized with the flicker in his own pulse. “You’re shaking,” he said.She smiled faintly. “You’d be shaking too if you’d just hacked half the city with your nervous system.”“Fair.”He tried to keep his voice light, but the truth pressed harder with every heartbeat. Whatev
CHAPTER 9 – The Ghost Frequency
The tunnel opened into a forgotten maintenance chamber, a cavern of rusted steel and dripping pipes. The light from Elara’s skin had faded, leaving only the soft amber glow of a dying emergency lamp overhead.Stephen leaned against the wall, catching his breath. His clothes were torn, his knuckles raw. But his eyes were fixed on her like he was afraid to blink and lose her again.“You’re real,” he said quietly.Elara smiled faintly. “You keep saying that.”“Because it keeps surprising me.”She took a slow step closer. “You saved me once. Now it’s my turn.”He frowned. “You think we can save anyone now?”She looked at her hands, the faint traces of light still threading her veins. “Maybe not everyone. But something happened to us back there, Stephen. When we touched.”“Yeah,” he said, rubbing his chest. “Felt like someone plugged me into a lightning storm.”“It wasn’t just a shock.” Her voice trembled. “It was information. I saw things. Memories that weren’t mine.”He met her eyes. “Wh
CHAPTER 8 – The Tunnel of Echoes
The air in the sublevel tasted like rust and silence. Harlan held the flashlight low as they descended the last flight of stairs, the cone of light trembling over pipes and peeling paint.Elara followed, her hospital gown replaced by a maintenance jacket two sizes too big. Her bare feet made no sound on the concrete.Above them, distant boots echoed, Lang’s men sweeping the halls. “Here,” Harlan whispered. He pried open a rusted access door. Beyond it, a narrow tunnel sloped downward into darkness.“This runs under the east wing,” he said. “Connects to an abandoned subway line.”Elara peered inside. “And from there?”“Freedom,” he said, forcing a tight smile.They moved through the tunnel, the flashlight beam catching water dripping from pipes. The sound was rhythmic, steady, too much like a heartbeat.Elara slowed. Harlan turned. “You okay?”She nodded, but her voice was distant. “He’s here.”“Stephen?”She didn’t answer. Her hand brushed the wall, cold, damp concrete, and for a mome
CHAPTER 7 – When the Lights Went Out
The world went dark at 2:17 a.m. Every monitor in Kingsley Medical died in unison. The hum of machines cut to silence. The city outside went black, a skyline swallowed by shadow.And for the first time since the accident, Elara Kingsley heard herself breathe without the sound of machines.“Backup generators should’ve kicked in by now,” Dr. Harlan said, scanning the hallway with a flashlight. The beam jittered over sterile tiles and lifeless screens.The nurse beside him clutched a clipboard. “It’s the whole block, sir. Not just us.”He frowned. “That’s impossible. The hospital runs on a separate grid.”A metallic echo drifted down the corridor. Then a scream, distant, sharp, and human. Harlan turned toward Elara’s room. “Stay here.”Inside, the dark wasn’t empty. It was alive. Elara sat up slowly, the heart monitor beside her still dead.But she could feel another pulse, faint, steady, outside the room yet somehow inside her chest. “Stephen,” she whispered.His voice came faint, fragm
CHAPTER 6 – The Girl Who Woke the Dead
The first thing she felt was sound. Not a voice, not yet, just the slow, steady rhythm of machines, like a mechanical heartbeat that wasn’t hers.Then came the weight, the strange heaviness of her own body, too still, too foreign, as though it belonged to someone else. Elara Kingsley tried to open her eyes. Nothing.She tried again. A flicker. The faintest flash of light through her lashes. She wasn’t dead. She was somewhere in between. “Elara…”A whisper threaded through the darkness. Familiar. Steady. Her lips moved, but no sound came out. Stephen? “I’m here.”The voice trembled like electricity under her skin. She remembered rain. Tires screeching. A scream. Then- him.The boy who ran toward her when everyone else ran away. The one who held her hand when everything else slipped away. Now his voice was the only real thing left.Monitors beeped softly around her. Dr. Harlan’s pen tapped against his clipboard. “Heart rate’s rising again,” he muttered. “We’ve got neural movement.”A nu
CHAPTER 5 – The Man They Can’t Silence
The storm had cleared, but the city felt heavier, like it knew something no one was saying out loud. In the hospital, Elara’s heartbeat steadied into a quiet rhythm. The machines hummed like they were listening.Stephen sat in the interrogation room again, wrists free this time, but the tension was worse. Mara stood by the door, dripping from rain, a flash drive clutched in her fist. “You were right,” she said.He lifted his eyes slowly. “About what?”“About her. About all of it.”She set the drive on the table. “I got footage. Elara whispered your name. Right before they sedated her again.”He froze. “They what?”“They’re keeping her under intentionally. Some program, Project E-13. They say it’s treatment, but it’s control.”Stephen’s voice hardened. “You’ve seen her?”“Not since the night of the accident,” Mara admitted. “But I saw the data. They’re forcing her brain to stay asleep. And you” she exhaled. “You’re the variable they can’t explain.”He rubbed his hands together slowly.
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