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Chapter 10 — Project Genesis
The motorway stretched north like a scar through the rain. The van’s wipers beat time against the storm, slicing sheets of gray from the windshield.London was far behind now, its flickering lights swallowed by distance and fog. Inside, silence ruled, the kind of silence that comes after you’ve seen too much.Lex finally broke it. “So. Quick recap. We’re fugitives. We’re chasing a ghost lab run by a dead company. And our driver is an electric demigod with insomnia. Did I miss anything?”Maya shot him a look. “You missed the part where we have no plan if we get caught.”“Right, that’s important too.”Rashford’s hands tightened on the wheel. “We won’t get caught.”Maya frowned. “You keep saying that like you can see the future.”He hesitated. “I can’t. But the network can.”“Meaning?”He stared ahead at the endless gray. “Meaning it’s guiding me.”Lex snorted. “Fantastic. We’ve officially gone full GPS-from-hell.”Rashford didn’t respond. The veins on his neck shimmered faintly, that st
Chapter 9 — The Pulse
Rain drummed against the cracked tunnel roof, slow and steady, like a clock ticking down.Maya stood frozen, eyes locked on Rashford’s face. The faint glow beneath his skin pulsed in rhythm with the flickering lights. “You said it’s inside you,” she whispered.Rashford nodded slowly. “I can hear it… feel it. Every wire, every signal, it’s like the city’s heartbeat’s running through me.”Lex swallowed. “That’s, horrifyingly poetic. And also impossible.”Rashford glanced at him. “You think I’m imagining this?”“I think you’re running on zero sleep, and you just survived a building exploding on your head.”Maya stepped closer, voice low. “Rash, listen to me. Whatever this is, we can fix it. We’ll find a way.”He smiled faintly. “You don’t fix a storm, Maya. You survive it.”They followed the tunnel toward the surface, the scanner in Lex’s hand twitching with every step. “Signal’s jumping again,” he muttered. “It’s reacting to him, not the other way around.”“What’s it doing?” Maya asked.
Chapter 8 — Afterlight
London woke to sirens and smoke. The Royal Hospital was gone, a skeletal ruin veiled in rain. Fire crews worked in silence, faces pale beneath red flashing lights. The news called it a “gas explosion.” No one believed that.In a flat above an old café in Brixton, Maya sat at the window, eyes hollow from lack of sleep. The city skyline flickered in the distance, half of it still without power.Behind her, Lex typed furiously on his laptop, surrounded by empty energy drink cans and takeout boxes. “Still nothing,” he muttered. “No signals, no data trail, no body.”Maya didn’t turn. “He’s not dead.”“You keep saying that like it’s a fact.”“It is.”Lex sighed. “Maya, the whole substructure collapsed. He was right under the blast zone.”She faced him, jaw tight. “Then tell me why the grid’s still pulsing every thirty seconds.”He froze. “…What?”She tossed him a small handheld meter. “I picked up the signature an hour ago. Same frequency as the Seraph core, only weaker. Like it’s… echoing.
Chapter 7 — Level Minus Seven
The Royal Hospital rose above the Thames like a sleeping fortress, gray, clinical, silent except for the low hum of electricity that never stopped. Maya adjusted her hood, eyes scanning the gates. “You sure about this?”Rashford stood beside her, face half-lit by a passing car’s headlights. “My father used to say this place was built to save lives. Guess he forgot to mention it could end them too.”Lex exhaled smoke from the energy drink can he’d crushed flat.“We’re breaking into a government medical facility to hack an AI made of living code. I’d rate this a solid bad idea, but it’s too late to vote, right?”“Right,” Maya said, glancing at Rashford. “Once we’re in, how long before they know?”“Seconds,” Lex replied. “Maybe less. Cameras, biometric locks, heat sensors, they’ll see us the second we breathe wrong.”“Then let’s make it count,” Rashford said.The back entrance was a slab of reinforced glass and steel. Lex knelt, attaching a small black cube to the lock. “EMP scrambler. B
Chapter 6 — Echoes of the Prototype
The London Underground slept uneasily, rumbling like a giant in its dreams. Metal dripped and hummed; old tunnels breathed damp air and secrets.Rashford and Maya crouched behind a maintenance gate, the echo of alarms fading somewhere above. “Tell me I imagined that,” Maya whispered.“You didn’t,” Rashford said. His hands still glowed faintly, thin filaments of light threading under his skin.“Who, whatever that thing was, it called you Seraph Three.”“I heard.”“You gonna explain that?”“I’m trying to remember.” He pressed his fingers to his temples. “Flashes… labs… glass corridors. I was in a tank. My father’s voice saying, ‘He’s stable, keep him alive.’ Then nothing.”Maya swallowed. “So you’re saying you were an experiment?”He looked at her. “Still am.”They moved along the tunnel, flashlight beam cutting across graffiti and rust. “Lex is waiting at the drop point,” Maya said. “Two stops down. If he’s managed to pull the Seraph data, we’ll know what they built.”“Or who else they
Chapter 5 — The Ghost Circuit
London after midnight looked like circuitry, wet streets sparking under streetlights, the city pulsing with electric veins.Maya led Rashford through an alley that smelled of copper and rain. “Where are we going?” he asked.“Someplace the news never reaches.”“That’s not comforting.”“Good. It’s not meant to be.”She stopped at a metal door half-hidden behind a graffiti-coated shutter and tapped a rhythm with her knuckles, two short, one long. A slot slid open; a pair of eyes stared out.“Password?”Maya hesitated. “Ghost Circuit.”A click. The door opened. Inside, the light was low and blue. Computers hummed like insects. Cables coiled across the floor. A half-finished neon sign on the wall read LOW SIGNAL.At the center sat a man with violet hair and a soldering gun. “Lex,” Maya said, “I need a favor.”“You always do,” Lex replied, not looking up. “Who’s the guy bleeding secrets all over my network?”Rashford frowned. “Bleeding what?”“Metaphor, mate. Sit down before you short-circu
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