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Chapter 53: The Flow of Stone and Spirit — A Demonstration of the Aqueduct Veins
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Chapter 53: The Flow of Stone and Spirit — A Demonstration of the Aqueduct Veins

In the luminous days that followed Elias’s serendipitous encounter with Bubbles—the shapeshifting wisp-creature born from a slumbering arcane pod—life in the floating dominion of Falcon Ridge had grown unexpectedly vibrant.

Ever since Elias had bestowed upon the creature a flicker of forbidden algorithmic knowledge—courtesy of the cryptic construct Nexus-2, a rogue derivative of the original Nexus-1—Bubbles had blossomed into a sapient, endlessly curious being. It clung to Elias's shadow like an umbral sentinel, ever eager to observe and mimic the baffling intricacies of the human world with the unrelenting devotion of a cosmic disciple.

"Young Sovereign," came the whisper from beneath Elias’s cloak—a voice smooth as oiled silk, yet tinged with conspiratorial glee. "I have dispersed my echo-forms throughout the leyline-threaded sprawl of Falcon Ridge. My gaze reaches alleyways
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