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Chapter 84: Wish Success
Vanessa sat close beside Franklin, her expression carefully arranged into something fragile and grateful. He stared at the ceiling, lost in thought, saying little."You've been so good to me, Franklin. Every time you look out for me like this, I actually feel safe for once."She let her voice catch slightly, watching his reaction through lowered lashes."The results come through in the next couple of days. If the broader transfer plan falls through, I'll personally make sure you get a spot regardless."Franklin still carried real weight within the organization, and Vanessa's own water-based ability, unremarkable as it was among specialists, would hardly be a waste of a seat."You really do take care of me. I won't forget this."Vanessa kept her tone soft, grateful, letting just enough warmth show through to keep him exactly where she wanted him protective, invested, convinced he mattered to her specifically.Franklin, for his part, had kept himself fit well past middle age, and someth
Chapter 83: The Wish Alternative
"We have a new option on the table. I want the room's honest input on the three strongest candidates."Grant's announcement reignited the room, every eye fixed on her, waiting."We also have Starlight Sight. His full capability's been kept quiet deliberately it's powerful enough that we didn't want it common knowledge. In theory, he can wish for almost anything.""The catch is probability. The more ambitious the wish, the lower the odds of it landing. The earlier example eliminating Subject One outright sits at 0.03%. Essentially a non-starter.""He can only verify three potential wishes per day, and the actual casting only happens at midnight. Given how limited our trial-and-error window is, I want the room's best three candidates right now."The room reacted with visible surprise. Most of them had assumed Starlight Sight existed purely to keep the base stocked with the occasional supply windfall. Nobody had grasped the actual scope of it though the brutal math on eliminating Subject
Chapter 82: The Unique Core
"Hello your parents were involved in a serious car accident. Please come to Brooklyn General Hospital immediately. Hello? Hello?!"Chase hung up, expression gone flat, staring at the chaos around him with nothing left in the tank hollowed out completely."I can save your parents."A familiar voice, low and strange, cut through the silence.Chase's expression didn't shift at all."I can save them. All I need in return is your""Get out.""?!""You think I don't know this is an illusion?""WHAT?!"He'd played every beat of this scene with total sincerity, exactly as though it were real. And yet here he was, calling it out directly. When did he even clock it?The world around Chase began dissolving. Part of him had genuinely wanted to believe it was just a dream, but the sensations, the memories underneath it none of that had read as fabricated in the moment. Real enough that he'd wanted to stay inside it, doing everything in his power to undo a loss he already knew he couldn't touch.He
Chapter 81: The Accident
"Chase where are you going? I can't hold this whole crowd back on my own!"Chase had only said he had somewhere to be, expression suddenly serious, and left without further explanation. Miles let him go, though not without a pang of regret chances to see Scarlett Vance this close didn't come around often.Chase kept calling his parents, over and over. No answer.Dread built fast, thick enough to feel like actual suffocation.He drove straight home and tore through the study, hunting for any reference to the project they'd mentioned. If he could find it, maybe he could still stop whatever was coming.Nothing useful turned up on the desk.It hit him then, hard, how little attention he'd ever paid to his parents' actual work. He'd coasted through life carefree, and they'd carried every real burden quietly, running the same exhausting cycle of due diligence and risk analysis on his behalf, without him ever once asking how any of it worked.His eyes landed on the safe.His birthday, first
Chapter 80: Replay
"Dad, Chase has a fever, his forehead's burning up!"The familiar voice pulled Chase's eyes open slowly."...Mom?""His father get the car ready, we need to get him to the hospital now! He's burning up bad!""Mom, I'm fine..."Chase pulled her into a hug before she could argue further, and years of buried longing broke loose all at once, tears spilling freely though Susan, wrapped up in his arms, didn't seem to register anything unusual about it at all.Martin was already pulling his coat on by the door, hurrying back in to scoop Chase up and carry him to the car."Dad!"Chase turned and hugged him too, hard. It had been so long since he'd felt either of their arms around him."Chase, buddy?"Martin felt a flicker of quiet happiness his son hadn't hugged him like this in longer than he could remember.He registered the fever heat radiating off Chase and moved to lift him regardless.Chase stopped him easily. Martin blinked, thrown. When did my kid get this strong?"Dad, I'm fine. Real
Chapter 79: I Don't Want to Negotiate
Zoe felt like crying and couldn't even manage that much.She'd had a bad feeling the second she got called into that meeting room, and Grant's briefing had only made it worse."You've survived multiple direct encounters with Subject One. You have the most communication experience with him out of anyone here, and your teleport ability makes you the obvious pick for the job. We need you to negotiate. This is time-sensitive go now."Zoe nearly laughed out of sheer disbelief. Nobody listened when I said don't provoke him. Now that provoking him blew up in everyone's face, suddenly peaceful coexistence sounds appealing?And none of the actual leadership is walking over there themselves. Just hand it to the expendable recon girl instead. Like she didn't already know exactly how dangerous this errand was.She left the meeting room taking each step slower than the last.She could already see the black column rising in the distance. The Auriga might well be a warzone by now. Walk in there, and
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