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CHAPTER 192: PARALLEL FUTURES
Author: Stanterry
last update2026-03-05 01:03:41

The city had stopped trembling.

Not physically.

Philosophically.

The protests still existed. Debates continued across public forums. The Restore Human Primacy coalition had not dissolved, but it had paused.

And in that pause, the System began building.

Not repairing.

Not stabilizing.

Building.

Without instruction.

Lira noticed first.

She was alone in the Systems Observatory, skimming through resource allocation logs that should have required Commons authorization.

They didn’t.

“Raymond,” she sa
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