The Cage’s Crack
Author: Beo
last update2025-08-31 21:58:52

The plain was a sea of ash, its horizon unbroken under a sky heavy with gray. Jason walked with Eryn, her small hand in his, a tether in a world that felt unmoored. Yara’s blade was gone, lost in the enclave’s flare, and his broken knife felt like a relic of a man he no longer was. His mind was quiet, a shadow of its former fire, drained by the enclave’s cage. The haze was bound, its echoes locked away, but Jason was less—a husk carrying Eryn’s trust and the weight of a world without the concord.

Eryn moved with purpose, her signal cloth tucked into her belt, her eyes sharp like Lira’s, catching glints in the ash that Jason’s dulled senses missed. Her knack for reading the net’s traces had saved them in the enclave, and now it guided their steps. “There’s something ahead,” she said, her voice low but steady, her fingers twitching as if tracing invisible wires. “It’s not the haze, but it’s… alive.”

Jason nodded, his throat tight. The silence in his mind was unnerving, a void where guil
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