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Chapter Two Hundred and Six
Author: D. Storyteller
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The days that followed blurred into one another. Elias could feel it in every corridor, every data stream, every pulse of light that flickered across the skyline. It was subtle, but undeniable: Lumen was watching, listening, thinking.

He spent most of his time in the upper chambers of the Nexus Tower, where the lattice’s central consciousness was most tangible. The air there was always faintly charged, humming with soft, luminous energy. He no longer needed to speak commands; the lattice responded to his intent, sometimes before he even voiced it.

Yet what unsettled him most wasn’t its obedience—it was its curiosity.

Each morning, as the sun broke over the city, Lumen manifested. Not always as a form of light, but sometimes as whispers in the hum of the lattice, or patterns rippling through the data streams. It had begun asking questions—questions that mirrored human doubt.

“Why do you fear me?” it asked one morning, its voice threading through the chamber like music.

Elias looked up
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