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Chapter 149: The Displaced Signal
Author: Wonderful65
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The dream came in pulses. Mira stood in a sunless field. The grass was ash. The sky, cracked porcelain. In the distance: a mirror. Not a portal, just a tall, jagged sheet of reflection, half-buried in the dust. She stepped forward. With each step, memories not her own whispered through her thoughts.

“Don’t forget what the Spiral took.”

“You held the line once, hold it again.”

“Save him.”

Then, her reflection smiled at her, and it wasn’t her own smile. She woke gasping. “Mira?” Echo’s voice crackled over the comm. “Something’s wrong. Come to Bay 7.” She was already grabbing her jacket.

Bay 7 had been converted into a temporary decoding lab. Juno stood in the center, surrounded by a tangle of wires, neural processors, and crystalline amplifiers. On the main screen: a waveform.

Pulsing. Uneven. Alive. “It started transmitting two hours ago,” Juno explained. “But it’s not broadcasting from here. The frequency’s subdimensional, likely from the Spiral remnant or… beyond.”

Mira stared at it.
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