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Chapter 98 — The War Beneath the Skin

Author: Milky-Grip

2025-10-19 00:30:30

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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