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Chapter 69: The Prime Flame
Author: Grep-pens
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At dawn, Archive Sector 9-V shimmered unnaturally. Walls folded. Floors spun on impossible angles. Memory flames floated sideways, forming spiral glyphs in midair, alive, reactive, pulsing. Fred entered with Ivy and Aura.

Fred’s hand twitched. “It’s not the flames doing this,” Ivy muttered.

“It’s the space around them adapting to unresolved narrative weight.”

Aura: “The Archive isn’t just holding memory anymore. It’s responding to it.”

At the center of the warped space, Fred saw a flame flickering behind layers of glyph shields. But this one didn’t feel like a memory. It felt like a command.

Ivy stepped forward, running scans. “There’s a recursive anchor on this flame... locked under a Vault Class-0 authorization.”

Fred: “That’s Prime-tier. We’re not allowed to even see that.”

Emily joined them, breathless. “That’s because it’s the Prime Flame. The first. The one used to light the Archive.”

Accessing hidden system files, Ivy discovered the term Origin Protocol etched deep in spiral lo
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