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CHAPTER 30 – “THE UNBOUND PATTERN”
Author: Hot-Ink
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The golden field stretched ahead, calm, almost serene. But the whispers had grown louder, threading through the air like an unseen storm. Every heartbeat Kai took seemed to sync with a pulse he could feel but not see.

“Kai,” the child said, her voice tense, strands of violet and gold flickering around her form. “It’s worse than we thought. The fragments are coalescing into patterns we can’t fully predict. One of them is… unbound.”

Kai froze. “Unbound?”

“A fragment that doesn’t obey the rules. Not memory, not logic, not emotion. It’s forming its own reality inside ours. If it spreads… it could overwrite entire regions of the world permanently.”

He swallowed hard. The last time they had tried to stabilize echoes, he’d felt powerless. Now, the stakes were higher. “Then we contain it. We stop it before it touches anything important.”

“It’s not that simple,” she said. Her small hand brushed against his. “Unbound fragments aren’t predictable. They react to thought, emotion… even fear. You c
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