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CHAPTER 124 — THE QUIET THAT FOLLOWED THE SKY
When Miriam opened her eyes, the world was quiet. Too quiet. No wind, no alarms, not even the hum of the station’s failing generators. Only her own heartbeat a small, stubborn rhythm inside a silence too large to be natural.She sat up slowly, every joint aching. The floor beneath her was damp with condensation, the air thick and metallic. The viewing deck’s glass what was left of it lay in jagged pieces around her.Moonlight, or something like it, filtered through the broken frame. It wasn’t cold light. It moved faintly, like water breathing.The hum was gone. But in its absence, something else remained a kind of afterimage pressed into her mind, as if the air still remembered what it had been.Her throat burned. “Rayyan?” she whispered. Her voice came back to her an instant later, perfectly echoed. Not from the walls, not from any speaker. From the light itself. “Rayyan?” “Rayyan?” “Rayyan?”Each repetition sounded thinner, more human, as if her question were being practiced by some
CHAPTER 123 — WHEN THE SKY TURNED INSIDE OUT
The first pulse arrived as light. Not sunlight not the kind that warms or illuminates but a light that remembers. It burst across the world at 03:21 UTC, a tremor made of color and gravity.Every ocean shimmered silver for exactly seven seconds. Every bird froze mid-flight. And in that stillness, Earth seemed to hold its breath, as if waiting for permission to move again.Then the sound came. A low-frequency hum that no machine registered but every living thing felt. It crawled under skin, up through bone, into the mind like someone whispering just behind your thoughts.People clutched their heads. Dogs howled. The tides reversed for a heartbeat, then collapsed again. And at the center of it all, far beneath the ruined research dome, Rayyan’s heart beat once more echoing across the fabric of the world.Over the Pacific, a pilot watched the horizon bend. The stars below the plane began to reflect the stars above, a perfect mirror slicing the atmosphere.He radioed in trembling: “Sky’
CHAPTER 122 — THE FRACTURE INSIDE
At first, he thought he’d gone blind. Everything was light pure, violent, endless light that burned without heat. It pulsed in rhythm with his heartbeat.But when he blinked, he realized the pulse wasn’t his. It was something else’s heartbeat, resonating inside his skull. Then the world began to move.Shapes formed in the brilliance shadows that weren’t shadows, outlines of familiar things: the curve of the research dome, the flicker of Lena’s hand, the shimmer of Zara’s face half turned toward him.They appeared like reflections in shattered glass each fragment showing a different version of the same moment. Time breaking apart and replaying itself through the walls of his mind.He tried to move.He couldn’t feel his body. “Rayyan.” The voice was everywhere and nowhere. It came from beneath his skin, from the edges of the light. It was soft, melodic, and wrong.He whispered back, his own voice warped by the echo: “Zara?”“Zara,” the voice repeated, but it wasn’t her tone. It was an im
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
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