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Chapter 118 — Through the Mouth of Heaven
The world wasn’t falling. It was being inverted. At first, there was the sound a low, thunderous heartbeat that shook through marrow, through metal, through the memory of the ground itself.Then gravity stopped pretending to exist. The fissure yawned wide enough to swallow light. Zara screamed his name “RAYYAN!” but her voice shredded into the storm as the floor dropped out beneath them.They plunged, tumbling through air that wasn’t air anymore but a pressure made of sound and memory. Sirens warped into music. The color red became a texture. And the world forgot which way was down.Rayyan’s body twisted mid-fall. He saw the base above shrinking, dissolving into waves of collapsing geometry and the others falling beside him: Zara reaching toward him, Kasimir still rigid as a statue even in freefall, Jayden flailing as chunks of glowing metal tumbled past like dying stars.Then the air itself split open. Below them or maybe above the fissure widened into a landscape of impossibl
Chapter 117 — The Throat of the Earth
Darkness wasn’t absence. It moved. A breathing thing swallowing the base whole. Emergency lights stuttered into thin red veins along the corridor walls not enough to illuminate, only enough to reveal how much was missing.The ceiling groaned. The floor trembled like a heartbeat returned with teeth. And beneath it all, a sound like rock remembering it used to drown continents.Zara did not let go of Rayyan’s arm. Jayden drew his sidearm pointless gesture, sacred instinct. General Kasimir barked into the emergency comm clipped to his collar, voice sharp enough to cut panic in half.“Command to all units status and readiness check. Speak.”Static answered. Then “…we’re in the dark… movement in the lower levels”, Scream. Steel tearing. Silence. Kasimir’s jaw tightened.Rayyan’s pulse no, the thing masquerading as his pulse quickened like a predator scenting warmth. He dug nails into his palms until crescent moons of pain burned clarity. Not now. Not you.Not yet.A soldier stumbled int
Chapter 116 — The Lion Wakes Wrong
Rayyan did not wake gently. There was no slow blink, no groggy inhale, no easing back into a world where breath meant life. He snapped into consciousness like a door slamming open against its hinges.Air burned into his lungs. His spine arched. The world rushed in too violently, too sharply sound in needles, light in blades, time in jagged bursts. Hands steadied him.Zara’s. Warm. Human. Shaking just enough to reveal that even steel bends when the universe tries to take what it loves. “You’re safe,” she whispered.It was almost true. Because Rayyan’s pulse wasn’t steady it stuttered like it didn’t know which rhythm belonged to him anymore. And something else beat under his ribs. Not a heart. A memory of one.“Don’t move,” Zara murmured. “You’re not fully.”He cut her off with a rasp, harsh and alien in his own throat: “I died.” A statement. Not a question. Jayden stood in the corner, arms folded, jaw sharp as regret. “You flatlined,” he corrected.Rayyan turned to him and Jayden fl
Chapter 115 — Where Mortals Defy Heaven
The world shrank to sound. The gunmetal hum of the storm. The frantic beep of Rayyan’s heart then the absence of it. The medic’s shaking voice: “Flatline! He’s crashing!”Hands moved. Gel smeared. Pads pressed to Rayyan’s chest. “Charging clear!” A violent jolt. His body seized. Nothing. Again. “Clear!”His spine arched, then fell still. Zara did not blink. Her hand rested on Rayyan’s shoulder, not to hold him but to anchor herself.The Hybrid’s last words still pulsed behind her skull: You are going to ruin me. Let it be ruined. Let the universe splinter.She whispered, not to the medic, not to the soldiers but to the dying fire inside the man she loved: “Don’t make me walk this world without you.”Her voice shook like a blade in a war drum storm, trembling only because it was coiled with too much will. The medic’s voice broke: “No pulse again!”“Clear!”. The shock ripped through Rayyan again. Silence. And then BEEEEEEEEEEP. Flat. Empty. Final. No heartbeat. No return beep.Just t
Chapter 114 — When the Door Opens
Rain hammered steel. Lights flickered inside the dead convoy. Every soldier held their breath like it might be their last because it was.Something primal whispered in Zara’s bones: It wants him. It wants you. It wants to be wanted. The shadow outside the windshield shifted slow, curious, deliberate. A fingertip dragged across glass. Ssssssk.Not scraping tracing, like a child outlining a future scar. The medic whimpered. The radio crackled with nothing but breathing.Zara never removed her hand from Rayyan’s chest, but the other slid to her pistol. She did not draw it.She didn’t need to. Her intent cut sharper than metal.The Hybrid’s voice seeped into the cabin like smoke: “Do you know what he thought of when he felt his life slipping?”Zara didn’t answer. Rayyan’s monitor beeped frantically heart fighting, struggling, refusing. A pause.A sigh. Almost… tender.“He didn’t say your name.” That almost undid her. Almost. But tenderness from a monster is just cruelty reheated.Zara s
Chapter 113 — The World Learns to Fear
Rain smothered the skyline, washing away sirens. Cities across continents flickered in and out of power.Glass towers pulsed like hearts. Old satellites drifted off-course like sleepwalkers.And beneath it all, a sound too low for human ears vibrated every molecule of air. A pulse. A summons. A warning. The world did not yet realize it was kneeling. Not yet.The convoy tore across a slick, black highway engines screaming, tires spitting water like shattered glass. Inside, Zara pressed her palm against Rayyan’s cheek as though heat from her touch alone could anchor him to life.His breathing wavered. A gasp here. A faltering exhale there. A man who could break kingdoms with a glance now fought simply to exist.She whispered, not realizing her voice shook: “You don’t get to leave before the war even starts.” Monitors beeped softly. Too softly.The medic wiped sweat from her brow. “We need surgical stabilization in the next twenty minutes or"“Finish that sentence and I put you out of
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