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chapter 29
Emma's footsteps echoed like heartbeats in the containment level. Each step she took toward him felt like walking through water. The air around him was thick with power, reality bending and wrapping In the ways that made her eyes hurt to perceive. But she kept moving anyway, one foot in front of the other, because that's what you do when someone you cared about disappears right in front of you.“Hey kid, I wouldn't get so close if I were you,” Commander Cross warned, divided between Gabriel's shifting form and Emma's approach. “He's unstable. Dangerous. If you get too close…”“He won't hurt me,” Emma said, though she wasn't entirely certain. The thing standing in Gabriel's place looked less human with each passing second. His eyes were completely void-black, now reflecting no light. His skin had taken on a translucent quality, and she could see shadows moving beneath it like dark water. When he breathed; if he was breathing frost formed in the air.But underneath all the wrongness, u
chapter 28
Gabriel's consciousness was a shattered mirror, putting together the worst of his memories. One showed him trembling in the Academy hallways, powerless and afraid. Another revealed him in the laboratory collapsing as Soulrender consumed him. A third displayed something older, almost alien Umbrix on the edge of time, a guardian between realities “You're fragmenting across dimensions,” Umbrix warned. “ Anchor yourself, choose one reality and hold on.”But Gabriel couldn't. The pull of each version of himself was too strongA whisper echoed “Soulrender” , the cursed blade that had bonded to him. In the void, he saw it pulsing like a heartbeat. The blade didn't just cleave flesh; it severed realities.“ Remember your true self,” Soulrender whispered”He was trembling now, not from fear but from overload. The containment level faded around him, shadows bleeding into light. The rift was widening and he was becoming it “Gabrirl!” A voice cut through the haze Emma…In a single breath, he s
chapter 26
Power.Not the controlled manifestation Gabriel had practiced. Not the careful exercise in the training yard. This was the full, restricted force of three ancient entities channeled through moral flesh.Gabriel felt his consciousness stretching, thinning, spreading across dimensions like butter scraped over too much bread. He was everywhere and nowhere. He was himself and not himself. He was….Hold on, Umbrix's voice cut through the chaos. Gabriel, hold on to something. Anything. One memory. One feeling. Don't let yourself dissolve completely. But it was hard. So hard. Gabriel's thoughts scattered like leaves in a windstorm, why he was doing this but the reasons kept slipping away.The dream weaver. Right. He was saving the dream weaver.Gabriel focused on that single purpose while his body moved without conscious direction. His hand rose, power gathering in his palm not shadow or cutting force separately, but something new. Something that combined all three entities into a force tha
Chapter 25: Unleashed
The first bullet should have killed him. Gabriel watched it approach in slow motion not because time had actually slowed, but because Echo was processing reality at a speed human perception couldn't match. He could see the rotation of the round, predict its trajectory, and calculate the exact angle needed to avoid it. He moved. Not a dodge, exactly. More like reality bent slightly to accommodate him. The bullet passed through the space where he'd been standing a fraction of a second earlier, and Gabriel was already in motion toward the guards. Good, Echo purred. Now let Soulrender work. Power flooded through his right hand. Not the controlled manifestation he'd practiced in training, but raw cutting force barely contained in human flesh. When he gestured, the air itself spilt open. Three guard's weapons simply fell apart. Not damaged or destroyed. Every component piece divided with such precision that they could probably be reassembled, but were currently useless. The gua
chapter 25
The day broke gray and cold over the storage buildings. Gabriel stood at the same window he'd occupied for most of the night, watching the sky lighten from black to ash to pale gray. He'd counted the hours until the mission: sixteen, then twelve, then eight. Now it was down to ten hours until dusk, when they'd move against the dream weaver facility. Ten hours until he either proved he could still function, or became a living proof that Marcus and Emma's fears were justified. You should eat something, Umbrix suggested. The body needs fuel, regardless of how fragmented the mind controlling it becomes. Gabriel almost laughed at that. The casual acknowledgment of his deterioration would have horrified him a week ago. Now. It was just reality. He made his way downstairs where a handful of early risers were preparing breakfast or what passed for breakfast with their dwindling supplies. Think porridge, stale bread, weak tea. The resistance was running out of resources almost as fast
chapter 24
The day broke gray and cold over the storage buildings.Gabriel stood at the same window he'd occupied for most of the night, watching the sky lighten from black to ash to pale gray. He'd counted the hours until the mission: sixteen, then twelve, then eight. Now it was down to ten hours until dusk, when they'd move against the dream weaver facility.Ten hours until he either proved he could still function, or became a living proof that Marcus and Emma's fears were justified.You should eat something, Umbrix suggested. The body needs fuel, regardless of how fragmented the mind controlling it becomes.Gabriel almost laughed at that. The casual acknowledgment of his deterioration would have horrified him a week ago. Now. It was just reality.He made his way downstairs where a handful of early risers were preparing breakfast or what passed for breakfast with their dwindling supplies. Think porridge, stale bread, weak tea. The resistance was running out of resources almost as fast as Gabri
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