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CHAPTER 121 — THE MIRROR DEPTH
For one impossible heartbeat, the ocean held its breath. Then the world exhaled. The walls of the research dome groaned as if crushed by an invisible hand.Every metal strut screamed in protest, glass cracking in spiderwebs across the shattered viewport. And outside looming in the deep blue ruin it watched him.The figure of light moved as he did. Every flinch, every trembling breath. When he turned his head slightly, it tilted in exact synchrony. Its outline shimmered humanoid, yes but its proportions were wrong.Shoulders too long, hands too fluid, as though it were sculpted from liquid and memory instead of bone. “Rayyan!” Lena shouted. She was halfway up the emergency ladder, the floodwater rising to her waist.“We have to get out now!”He didn’t hear her. His hand was still pressed to the glowing handprint on the deck. When he lifted it, the mark lifted with him not on the metal anymore, but suspended in the air between his palm and the entity’s.A tether. A bridge of light pulsi
CHAPTER 120 — THE SURFACE FRACTURE
The sky had lost its color. It was not night, not storm something in between. A trembling blue that rippled like the skin of the sea itself.Rayyan stood ankle-deep in the flooding ruins of the observation deck, the glass dome shattered in a perfect circle where Zara had vanished.The hole was impossibly smooth, as if melted through by something hot enough to erase edges and time. He couldn’t move at first.His throat was locked. His mind refused to reconcile what he’d seen the way the light had bent, the water folding into itself before she was simply… gone.Then the sound began. A low, thrumming heartbeat, somewhere deep beneath the ocean trench. He felt it through his boots before he heard it.Each pulse shivered the debris around him broken consoles, fractured glass, even his own ribs. It wasn’t seismic. It was… biological.“Zara?” he whispered into the headset, though it had long gone dead. Static hissed, then broke into fragments of a sound that was almost her voice.He stumbled
Chapter 119 — Beneath the Breathless Sea
Zara didn’t hit water. She hit silence. For one suspended heartbeat she expected the cold shock, the rush of bubbles, the fight for air.Instead, her body slid through a thickness that wasn’t liquid or light something in-between, like drowning in a dream.Everything shimmered blue-white. The world folded softly, without impact. Her scream never came out. It hung in her throat as threads of sound spiraled upward and vanished.Then came the first heartbeat not hers. It was slow, tectonic, resonating through her bones like thunder under skin. Her eyes opened.Above her, far away, Rayyan floated on a pane of impossible glass, his figure small against a bruised horizon. She reached up. The distance was wrong every movement made her drift further.“Rayyan,” she tried to say.The sea spoke instead. Zara. Her name. Spoken gently, almost lovingly. The sound rippled through the liquid like warmth.She froze. You fell. You always fall. She twisted, searching the light around her. Shadows coales
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
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