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CHAPTER 107 — THE SKY THAT TURNED INSIDE OUT
Author: Milky-Grip
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The floor cracked beneath her feet. At first, Miriam thought it was an aftershock. But the tremor didn’t fade it pulsed. Like a second heartbeat answering the first.

All around her, the ruins of the Ascension Chamber were being unmade. Steel didn’t bend or break; it flowed, curling upward in slow, graceful motion, metal melting into translucent threads that shimmered like liquid glass.

The air tasted metallic and sweet, heavy with ozone and the faint scent of rain on circuitry. Her breath caught.

The surface of reality itself seemed to soften, the edges of things losing definition as though someone had turned down the universe’s resolution.

The hard lines between light and shadow blurred until everything pulsed in faint waves. “Julian?” she called out, voice trembling.

Only the echo replied. And even that came back wrong distorted, delayed, like something trying to remember how to mimic sound.

Then, for the first time since the flash, she saw the sky. It wasn’t blue anymore. Above her
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