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Chapter 58- A peaceful moment
Jared’s POVThe light came slowly.Not harsh, not sharp. It crept along the field in a soft crawl, touching the grass before it touched him. Jared felt it on his face first. Warm. Real. The kind of morning that didn’t ask anything from him.For a moment he didn’t move.He listened to the world breathe.The wind brushed through the field. The tree behind them gave a small rustle. Somewhere far off, water sounded like it was moving, steady and calm.Then he opened his eyes.Emma was sitting a few steps away, knees tucked close, arms wrapped around them. She was watching the sunrise like it might slip away if she blinked. Her hair fell forward, hiding part of her face. The light caught the edge of it and turned it soft.Jared pushed himself up slowly.“You’re awake early,” he said.Emma didn’t turn. “I didn’t sleep long.”“Bad dreams?”“No. Just… new air.” She lifted her hand slightly. “I forgot what mornings felt like.”He walked closer and lowered himself beside her. Not too close at f
Chapter 57- The World That Waited
Jared’s POVThe field didn’t end.It spread in every direction like someone had forgotten to draw borders. The grass moved in slow waves, brushing his knees each time the wind passed. Emma walked beside him, her footsteps uneven, like she still wasn’t used to having weight again.Every few minutes she’d stop to look at something small.A flower.A stone.The way the sunlight broke through the clouds.She’d kneel to touch the ground like she expected her hand to pass through it.It never did.The sixth time she stopped, Jared watched her from a few steps ahead. She was crouched over a cluster of tiny white flowers. Her fingers hovered above them but didn’t pluck one. She only touched the petals like she was afraid the whole world might shatter.He walked back to her quietly.“You keep stopping,” he said.“I keep breathing,” she replied in a small voice. “Everything feels strange.”He lowered himself beside her. “Strange good or strange bad?”Emma looked up at him.He hadn’t realized un
Chapter 57- When the Heart Refuses to Break
Jared’s POVThe core wasn’t what he expected.He thought it would be metal walls or boiling light or endless towers of code waiting to swallow him alive. Something sharp. Something cruel. Something that looked like the thing that had trapped him for so long.Instead, it looked… incomplete.A long bridge of white light stretched ahead. Empty space beneath. Empty space above. The kind of nothingness that felt like it could think. It hummed, low and steady, like a heartbeat trying to remember its rhythm.Emma’s hand was still in his. Her steps were small but steady. She didn’t pretend she was strong. She just kept walking, and somehow that made her feel stronger than anything else he had seen inside this world.They walked together until the bridge widened into a platform.Jared stopped first.Emma didn’t.She walked to the center. A soft light fell over her, turning her into something that didn’t look artificial or broken. Just… her. The girl who stayed late in the lab. The one who laug
Chapter 55- The Place That Remembers Us
Jared’s POVThe fall back into the system wasn’t violent this time.It felt more like sinking under warm water. Slow. Thick. A pull he couldn’t fight even if he wanted to. Emma’s hand stayed in his, tight enough to ground him, gentle enough not to scare anything inside him that was still shaking.When his feet hit solid ground again, he expected the usual. The dark halls. The ruined corridors. The broken screens screaming warnings at him.But the system had changed.It wasn’t a battlefield anymore.It was… a hallway.Long. Quiet. Soft white lights humming above their heads. Windows lining one side. And outside those windows wasn’t code. Or dust. Or the endless void.It was the academy courtyard.Sunny. Still. Green.A perfect memory wearing the skin of something that had never been this peaceful in real life.Jared blinked slowly. “Why this place?”Emma let go of his hand, only to walk a few steps ahead, her fingers brushing the cold glass like she was touching a ghost.“Because this
Chapter 54- The Things That Try To Stay
The first thing he noticed was the quiet.Not the deep roaring silence from before, not the one filled with broken data and dying alarms. This one felt softer. Alive in its own way. It hummed under the metal floor, like the system was trying to catch a breath it didn’t know how to take.Jared pushed himself up. His palms hurt again, the marks glowing faintly, but the pain wasn’t sharp anymore. More like a memory of pain trying to cling to him.He looked around.The space didn’t look like the core. It wasn’t the chamber either. It was… warmer. Gentler. Silver panels on the walls, faint lights that blinked like tired stars. A quiet room that felt as if someone had built it for him, then abandoned it halfway through.And then he heard footsteps.Jared froze.They were soft. Careful. Familiar in a way he couldn’t explain.He turned, slow, preparing for another ghost or glitch or twisted version of himself.But it wasn’t any of those.It was Emma.Not fading. Not flickering. Not twisted by
Chapter 53- The Quiet After the Light
The light faded slowly, like someone pulling a curtain across the world. Jared blinked until shapes returned, until the white around him loosened into shadows and walls. His breath came unsteady, but he stayed standing. He had to. Emma’s voice still clung to him like a hand that refused to let go.He rubbed his palms together out of habit. The gold lines still moved beneath his skin, restless, almost alive. They pulsed every time he remembered her fading shape.He didn’t call her name. It felt dangerous to speak it, like the room might break again.The core chamber settled around him. Dust floated lazily in the air, glowing when it passed through the patches of weak light. The whole place looked tired, as if it had held its breath for too many years. Screens cracked. Cables half-buried in the floor. Old logs flickering with broken sentences.He let his fingers graze one of the metal rails. It vibrated faintly, humming from the system overload earlier. He wondered if she could still fe
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