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CHAPTER 143 — “FRACTURED GRAVITY”
Adrian opened his eyes to a world unmade. Not destroyed unmade. Broken into fragments of air and light, shards of stone floating in an endless, featureless void. Gravity no longer obeyed any rule he had ever known.Time felt sticky, elastic, as if it could snap back into itself at any moment, and Selene or the thing wearing her face was gone.One second she had been under his hand, a beacon of recognition amid chaos. The next, she had been ripped away by the descending shadow, the Eye or some fragment of it plunging into the void.His chest burned. Heart pounded. Breath came in short, jagged bursts. The air didn’t move around him, yet it pressed into his lungs like solid matter.“Selene!” he shouted, voice bouncing against nothing. His echo returned, warped, as if space itself had no meaning. “Hold on! I’m coming!”A flicker of light answered him. A shard of floating stone spun in the distance, catching the reflection of something her hair? A glint of her wrist? His stomach dropped. I
CHAPTER 142 — “THE VERTICAL FALL”
The fall was not a fall, Not at first. Adrian’s body plummeted, but space did not behave correctly around him. The wind didn’t roar past his ears, it pressed inward. The sky warped, folding like wet paper.The fractured tower above stretched into infinity, then snapped back into a shape that felt too small to contain what had happened.He held her hand Selene’s hand, or the shape of Selene’s hand with a grip so tight the bones of his forearm vibrated. Her fingers twined with his in a mirror-perfect reflection of every moment they’d reached for each other before. No glitching. No hesitation.But her eyes Her eyes tore him apart. They were wrong and right at the same time. One moment human, terrified, desperate. The next flickering with cavernous emptiness, a void that didn’t belong in anything wearing a face.“Adrian” Her voice broke in pieces, scattering across the collapsing sky. “Don’t don’t”The rest of the sentence fractured into static. A whirlpool of light opened beneath them, b
CHAPTER 141 B — “THE FACE THAT SHOULD NOT BE”
Adrian stumbled, catching himself on one knee. The figure stood motionless amid the chaos, the epicenter of the disturbance.He heard something under the shaking like a thousand overlapping whispers converging into one note. A resonance.The Eye,or something wearing the Eye like a mask.The captain shouted, “Adrian, we leave now!”But Adrian couldn’t move. Because the figure’s eyes those unstable, shimmering eyes had locked onto his again, and for half a breath, he saw something deep inside them. Not malice. Not manipulation. Something like confusion.Like someone trapped inside themselves, screaming beneath a surface that wouldn’t let them break through. And that more than anything made him hesitate.“Adrian,” she whispered, “help me.”His chest constricted painfully. That was Selene’s voice. That was her pleading tone. She had used it only once in their entire time together when she’d thought she was losing her humanity.He tried to stand. His legs trembled. “Don’t,” the captain bar
CHAPTER 141 — “THE FACE THAT SHOULD NOT BE”
The storm had no right to be silent. The sky above the shattered tower churned with spiraling ash and fractured lightning, yet not a single crack of thunder accompanied the violence overhead.Wind whipped around Adrian, tearing at his coat, carrying the taste of metal and burnt ozone but all noise seemed suspended, trapped behind the impossible presence standing at the broken lip of the tower. She looked down at him.Selene. Or something that had memorized her perfectly. The figure’s hair moved as hers used to, black strands lifted by currents that didn’t reach the ground.Her eyes glowed faintly not like the Eye, not like any human light, but an unstable mixture between warmth and cold, recognition and void.Her face held precisely the contour Adrian knew better than his own reflection, yet there was a stillness to her posture that Selene had never possessed. Selene had always been fluid, subtle, alive with micro expressions.This figure’s emotions came in too cleanly, each shift alm
CHAPTER 140 — “THE STRUCTURE THAT REMEMBERS”
The first thing he registers is the sound a low, bone-deep hum rising from the stone beneath his boots, pulsing in a rhythm that feels alien yet uncannily familiar. He doesn’t know why the sound tightens his chest, why it makes his jaw clench as if in warning. He only knows it’s wrong.Wrong, and calling to him. The half formed world around him shifts like a fever dream: fractured pillars, suspended debris hanging mid-air as if gravity forgot itself, streaks of light slicing across an endless dusk sky.The towering structure in front of him grows higher by the second stone folding upward, spiraling like a serpent coiling to strike. Adrian doesn’t remember building it. He doesn’t remember why he’s here.He doesn’t remember anything. A name flickers somewhere in the hollow behind his ribs. A sound more felt than recalled.Se Se It dissolves before it reaches understanding. He lifts a hand instead, instinct guiding what memory cannot. Veins glow faintly beneath his skin, pulsing with a s
Chapter 139 — “The Pulse That Remembers”
The entity did not fall. It descended, as if gravity was an optional conversation it could choose not to join. Each step downward reshaped the air itself eddies of dust curling away from its legs, pushed aside by a silent pressure.Lyra clung to its grip, the air whipping against her face as they floated down the vertical drop. She had no scream left. Only breathless, paralyzed disbelief.Below them, the crater floor once a ruin of shattered stone and collapsed pathways continued to ignite with thin, veined lines of white light.Each pulse crawled outward from a single focal point. A point that should not have existed.A point where the Eye shattered, imploded, dead was beginning to reassemble. Damon’s voice cracked over the comms again, higher now, command veneer shattered:“ALL UNITS RETREAT NOW! REPEAT FALL BACK! THE CORE IS”Static swallowed him. The crater itself began to hum. A low vibration first barely felt like the tremble before a distant earthquake.Then stronger. Enough to
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