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CHAPTER 10 — THE HEART OF THE GRID
Rain slicked the streets like liquid glass. Billy’s boots splashed through the puddles as the Helix Tower loomed ahead, fifty floors of black glass humming with energy.The whole structure pulsed faintly, alive with blue light running through its veins. Nina glanced up. “You sure you’re ready for this?”“No.”“Good. Means you might survive.”She tightened the strap on her weapon. Billy flexed his fingers, light crackled faintly between them. “Security grid’s on full lockdown,” Nina said. “You fry one circuit wrong, the whole place knows.”“Then I won’t miss.”They slipped into the shadow of a maintenance tunnel. The hum of power surrounded them, heavy and rhythmic. “Feels like walking inside a heart,” Nina murmured.“It is a heart,” Billy said quietly. “The city’s heart. His heart.”They reached a steel door marked AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY.Nina crouched, pulling a small device from her jacket. “Give me sixty seconds.”Billy placed a hand on the lock. “You’ve got three.”Blue lines c
CHAPTER 9 — THE ECHO
Rain again. Always rain. Like the sky hadn’t stopped mourning since the explosion. Billy leaned against the rusted fence overlooking the East River.His reflection in the water pulsed, blue veins of light threading through his neck. He hated how quiet it was now. The kind of quiet that means something’s listening.Nina stood a few feet away, watching the skyline flicker. “They’re saying it was a terrorist attack.”“Of course they are.”“They’ve got your name on every feed, Billy. ‘Rogue Elemental,’ ‘Technopath Killer.’ Take your pick.”He smirked. “They always need a villain.”“Yeah, but this time the villain’s you.”He didn’t answer. The rain hit his jacket and hissed like static.“Talk to me,” she said.“I can’t.”“You won’t. Big difference.”Billy turned toward her. “You think I’m still me?”She squinted. “What does that even mean?”He tapped his temple. “He’s in here, Nina. Not like a voice. More like, echoes. Fragments. Sometimes I can tell which thoughts are mine. Sometimes I ca
CHAPTER 8 — SIGNAL GHOSTS
Smoke still clung to the skyline. The Argus Building was a black scar now, its top floors collapsed, lightning still flickering through the clouds like a dying heartbeat.Billy stood in the rain, watching emergency drones hover around the ruins. Sirens wailed. News choppers circled. Somewhere beneath the chaos, Gwen’s energy still hummed.“Time to go,” Nina said. Her hair was soaked, eyes sharp.“They’ll be here any minute.”“Let them,” Billy muttered. “They already think I did it.”“Yeah, and the way you look right now? They’re gonna be right.”He glanced down, his hands glowed faintly blue, every pulse visible through the skin. Nina touched his shoulder. “You’re burning out. Whatever he did to that machine, it’s in you now.”He shook her off. “I can handle it.”“Sure. You handled the exploding skyscraper great.”He almost smiled, but didn’t. “We need to find out where he went.”“Can’t exactly call him.”“No,” Billy said, scanning the skyline. “But I can trace the signature.”He clos
CHAPTER 7 — LIGHTNING CHASE
Rain hit the rooftops like shattered glass. Billy sprinted across slick concrete, breath steady, boots slapping through puddles.The storm above wasn’t random anymore, it pulsed in patterns. Gwen’s patterns. “Slow down!” Nina shouted, leaping after him. “You trying to get yourself killed before he does?”“Can’t stop now,” Billy yelled back.“Not stopping, just pointing out this is suicide with cardio.”He jumped the gap between buildings. Lightning tore the sky open as he landed, rolled, and kept moving.“Signal’s close,” he said, voice clipped. “One block east.”“Your magic GPS tells you that?”“Something like that.”Nina muttered something unprintable and followed, ducking low as another thunderclap cracked over them.The city stretched below, fire escapes, neon signs, the flicker of streetlights caught in the rain. Far off, sirens screamed, muffled by the storm.Billy stopped at the edge of a rooftop, scanning the skyline. “He’s here.”“Your ghost sense tingling again?”He ignored
CHAPTER 6 — STORM SIGNAL
Rain hammered the pavement, slicing through the night in silver lines. Billy stopped in the middle of the street, palms open to the downpour.He could feel it, the pulse under the storm, Gwen’s signature woven through every bolt of lightning. A code only a student could read.Nina shouted over the thunder, “You good, or are you communing with the weather now?”He didn’t move. “He’s alive.”“You sure?”“I’d know his resonance anywhere.”“Well, great,” she said dryly. “Your undead mentor’s shooting lightning at the skyline. Totally fine.”He started walking again. “He’s sending a message.”“Or bait.”Billy didn’t answer. He ducked into an alley, water streaming down the walls like veins of mercury.Nina followed, muttering. “You’re insane.”“Maybe. But I’m not wrong.”They turned a corner, the hum of power stronger now, sharp enough to make his skin prickle.Billy reached out, touching the brick. A faint pattern burned under his fingers, ancient runes, Gwen’s script. “He marked this,” B
CHAPTER 5 — THE MAN IN THE DARK
The room smelled of ozone and rust.Master Gwen sat in the half-light, bandaged arms crossed, eyes fixed on a wall of old monitors flickering with grainy feeds of the city.Billy’s face appeared on one of them, walking with Nina through the rain. Gwen exhaled slowly. “You found her. Faster than I expected.”From the shadows behind him, a voice replied, low and metallic. “You should have told him the truth.”“I told him what he needed to hear.”“And now he hunts you.”“That’s the plan.”Gwen turned, and the man in the shadows stepped forward, face hidden under a hood stitched with the same sigil that had burned the assassin’s chest.“Master,” the figure said, bowing his head slightly. “The Consortium has put a price on your student. They call him the Element Thief.”Gwen gave a faint, humorless smile. “They’re not wrong. He stole everything I taught him.”The hooded man hesitated. “You still care for him.”“Care?” Gwen’s eyes narrowed. “He’s the only one who might survive what’s coming
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