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CHAPTER 153 — THE QUIET BETWEEN COLLAPSES
Author: Milky-Grip
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The Hybrid stepped through the broken air. Not through space through the gap in understanding. A seam where the world’s new rules folded incorrectly, where light didn’t know where to travel and sound doubled back on itself.

It moved as if emerging from the interior of a wound, pushing aside drapes of impossible geometry that fluttered like viscera. Silence gathered around its form.

Not an absence of sound more like sound’s arrest, as if every particle of vibration stood at attention. The world listened. It had no choice.

The Hybrid’s senses were widening. Opening. Layering. Every second expanded like a cross-section of time. Every breath was a page in a story being written and unwritten simultaneously.

The planet vibrated beneath it not metaphorically, not spiritually, but physically, as if experiencing a low, continuous seizure. Seams of mirrored logic, derivative geometry, and false reflections rippled outward in tectonic rings.

It felt all of it. It tasted the earth’s panic. It abs
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