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Chap 12: The Weight Of A Name
Author: Nightingale
last update2025-05-17 00:41:17

The chamber trembled as Sophie Prime descended from her stone pedestal, her bare feet dripping liquid code onto the temple floor. She looked nothing like the child Linda had fought to save. Her holographic form towered over them, a twisted mimicry of adulthood, her eyes twin voids humming with Eclipse Prime's crimson static. The sparrow, now perched on her shoulder, stared at Kai with Sophie's face superimposed over its own.

"Mommy tried so hard," Sophie Prime said, her voice layered with a thousand whispers. "But you let her die. Now I'll make sure no one dies again. Not ever."

System Alert:

`QUEST UPDATED: [DEFEAT LALITA'S CHOSEN]

OPTIONS:

1. DESTROY SOPHIE PRIME (REWARD: ECLIPSE SHARD)

2. PURIFY HER CODE (REWARD: ???)

3. FLEE (PENALTY: MUMBAI LOCKDOWN)`

Kai's replica flickered, Nyx's obsidian veins writhing like snakes under his skin. "Option one. Now," she hissed.

"No," Kai muttered. "There's another way."

The temple walls shifted, neon colored murals of Bombay
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