The Weight of the Table
Author: rkarahan83
last update2026-07-22 16:18:01

The drive back to the capital took four hours. I spent the first two of them doing nothing but breathing.

The *Sovereign Aura* wasn't like the *Micro-Expression Analysis* or the *Meridian Sight*. Those were passive overlays, like putting on a pair of glasses. This was a physical weight. It was a dense, bio-electric field that radiated from my skin, and if I didn't consciously reel it in, it started to affect the environment.

By hour three, the leather seats of the SUV were beginning to scorch
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