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Chapter 103 — The Core That Dreamed of Silence
Rael’s first thought was that she had died. Then came the second: death wasn’t supposed to think. She floated in a vast, dim space that pulsed like a heartbeat.No walls. No sky. Just a horizonless expanse of liquid gold and black, shifting with the rhythm of something enormous sleeping beneath her.Every sound echoed from everywhere whispers, screams, laughter all folding back into themselves. She touched her chest. There was no pulse, only vibration. The rhythm wasn’t hers anymore.It belonged to something else. “Rael.” The voice came from inside her skull and from all directions. Soft. Male. Familiar.“Ethan?” she whispered. A flicker answered a shape forming in front of her, fracturing into endless versions of him. Ethan smiling.Ethan screaming. Ethan as light. Ethan as shadow. Each image overlapped, too many to count, too many to contain. “I can’t tell where I end,” the voices murmured, overlapping. “Or where you begin.”Rael stepped back, or tried to but there was no ground
Chapter 102 — The Sky That Forgot Itself
The silence after the heartbeat ended was worse than any quake. It wasn’t stillness it was suspension.Like the entire planet had inhaled and forgotten how to exhale.Captain Niven lay half-buried under debris, his body vibrating from the last shockwave. The air smelled of iron and burnt ozone.He pushed himself up, blinking dust from his eyes. All sound seemed muffled, like cotton pressed over the world. “Rael…” His voice came out raw. “Rael!”No answer. Just the faint whisper of wind. Then a crackling through the comms. “ Niven? Captain?” Kara’s voice. Panicked, thin, but alive.He fumbled with his wrist unit. “I hear you. Where are you? “South ridge! The relay survived, barely. Sir, the crater oh God, the crater.”He turned. The fissure had changed again. The gold was gone. Now it was black. A perfect void, swallowing light itself. Around it, the ground shimmered like glass solidified mid-motion, as if time had slowed there.The sky pulsed faintly, veins of darkness threading thr
Chapter 101 — The Heartbeat of the World
The first tremor hit at 03:07 a.m. Dr. Rael was already awake, hunched over the emergency console inside the ruined command tent, when the earth began to breathe. Not shake breathe.The soil under her boots rose and fell in a slow, rhythmic pulse, like the lungs of something enormous stirring beneath the crust.The monitors flickered with rolling seismic graphs that no longer looked like waves they looked like cardiograms.“Rael!” Captain Niven shouted, stumbling in through the torn flap. “It’s not tectonic. We checked the plates there’s no slip zone, no fault! It’s everywhere!”Rael didn’t answer. Her eyes were locked on the data scrolling across the holo-display: energy spikes synchronized across every major continent, identical down to the millisecond.It wasn’t random. It was organized. “Patch me to the orbital feed,” she ordered. Static swallowed the response. Then, faintly, the voice of the comms tech: “We’re losing satellites, half the network’s offline.The others are showi
Chapter 100— The Light That Remembers
At first, there was nothing. Then there was light. Not the kind that illuminates, but the kind that listens. Miriam floated or thought she did. Her body had no weight, no edge.Every breath felt borrowed from something else, some vast organism inhaling her into itself. Her thoughts stretched, thinned, blurred.She remembered falling the roar of the crater, Rael’s scream, the terrible beauty of the light swallowing her whole. And then… Silence. Radiance. Endlessness.Her voice was gone. Her heartbeat was gone. Only the rhythm remained the one she’d felt beneath the world. thum thum thum.It wasn’t external anymore. It was within her. Do you hear it? The voice came from everywhere and nowhere like the echo of her own thoughts spoken by a stranger.Miriam turned, though turning had no meaning here. Space folded itself around her perception like silk. The light rippled. And from it, a shape emerged. It looked like Ethan.Almost.He was standing or pretending to stand on a surface th
Chapter 99— The Heartbeat Under the World
The world didn’t end with an explosion. It ended with a breath. A single inhale, drawn from the planet’s lungs. Then a silence so absolute it felt like grief.Dr. Rael was the first to notice the tremor. Not the usual seismic pulse something slower, deeper, deliberate. It rolled beneath her boots like a vast animal turning in its sleep.“Everyone, brace!” she shouted, voice cracking through the static. “It’s coming from below!” .The survivors froze. Around the shattered remains of the Cradle complex, what was once a laboratory now looked like a graveyard of steel and bone.Towers folded in on themselves; the air shimmered with heat ghosts. The sun hung wrong in the sky, as if the light itself had changed its mind.Rael’s earpiece crackled. A faint voice: “Command to surface team what’s your status?”She pressed the transmitter to her mouth. “Status? We’re standing on the chest of a dying god. That’s our status.”No answer. Just interference then a sound that didn’t belong to any freq
Chapter 98 — The War Beneath the Skin
Darkness wasn’t absence anymore. It was shape, motion, breath. The void pressed close, not empty but alive like lungs filled with slow, wet thunder.The hybrid hung inside it, a body made of warring intent, torn between two minds clawing at the same name. Ethan. Victor. Neither. Both.They were trapped in their shared skull, every thought mirrored and distorted, every heartbeat echoing against a wall that wasn’t there.Let go. No. You’ll burn it all. It’s already burning. We can still. We can’t save anything. We can only finish what we began.The space around them flickered with memory. Every word bled color into the dark: the glow of a ruined campus stage, the sound of laughter that turned to scorn, the smell of ozone in a collapsing lab.The fragments of their lives orbited like debris around a dying star. The hybrid convulsed. Two silhouettes tore through the same frame one tall, rigid, eyes of cold logic; the other broken, furious, trembling with humanity.Their outlines overlappe
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