HOUSEKEEPER TO HEIR

CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: THE WORLD IN FLAMES

Location: Resonance Field / Global Streets

The void shook with every note. Eden and Grayson’s voices joined, weaving a fragile gold harmony that pushed back against Seraph’s violet storm.

For the first time, Seraph’s confidence wavered her smirk faltered, her tone cracked. But outside the field, the world was unraveling.

THE STREETS TURN RED

In London, two childhood friends screamed at each other in the middle of the street, fists swinging over a trivial insult neither could remember starting.

In Lagos, markets dissolved into chaos as strangers accused one another of theft, rioting until stalls burned.

In New York, entire subway cars erupted into fistfights, commuters clawing like animals.

The violet hum spread through every device, every signal tower, every screen. The world was no longer singing it was howling. And above it all, Marlow Vex watched from his skyscraper tower, champagne glass in hand.

“Look at them. The great human symphony reduced to static.”

INSIDE THE FIELD

Eden gas