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CHAPTER 290 — THE WORD HE COULDN’T SAY
Darkness didn’t fall. It filled. Thick. Heavy. Absolute. A darkness that wasn’t the absence of light, but the absence of memory.Callen felt himself floating in it, suspended like a thought that had been half-erased. Ember’s hand was still gripping his, but even her warmth felt distant, muffled behind layers of dissolving recollection. Her voice finally pierced the void. “Calle, Callen, stay with me!”He couldn’t tell how close she was. Or if she was even real right now. Time had no shape here. Neither did they. Then, A flicker.A tiny spark of gold flared in the dark, buzzing like a firefly trapped behind a wall of ink. Ember. Her glow fought to cohere again, her silhouette glitching into place with sheer force of will.But her face was twisted in horror. “Callen… your eyes”He opened them. There was nothing. Not black irises. Not white sclera. Just blankness. A void where sight should be. Callen choked on panic. “It took my childhood, it took everything connected to”“No.” Ember fra
CHAPTER 289 — THE PRISON THAT REMEMBERS YOU BACK
Light wasn’t supposed to make sound. But this light screamed. It tore through the chamber in jagged brilliance, shredding form, thought, and physics.Ember grabbed Callen’s hand, but her fingers flickered through his, their bodies stuttering between shapes and particles as the explosion of Proto-Memory ruptured around them.Callen couldn’t see. Couldn’t breathe. Couldn’t even think straight. There were too many memories. Too many histories crashing into each other.Too many versions of him trying to claw their way into the present. One thought rose above the static: “The Spine is a prison.”Older Callen’s words echoed through the vacuum-stutter of collapsing reality. A prison. Not a vault. Not an archive. Not a cosmic oracle. A containment structure.Built for something too big, too dangerous, too alive to roam free. The light snapped off like a switch being thrown. Silence. Blackness.And then, A breath. Callen opened his eyes. He wasn’t in the chamber anymore. He stood on a narrow w
CHAPTER 288 — THE FIRST MEMORY TO BREAK
The chamber shuddered. Not from impact. Not from collapse. But from recognition. As if the Spine, the architect of all memory, had just realized who was standing inside it.Callen’s breath fogged the pulsing air. Ember tightened her grip on his arm, embers rippling down her fingers like instinctive armor.Above them, the fused hybrid army, Witnesses entangled with Hollowborn threads, rippled through the chamber walls like living murals.Their bodies were only half-physical, half-narrative, merging and unm e rging between fragments of stories that were not fully theirs.The hybrids didn’t speak. They remembered. And the remembering hit the chamber like a storm. A man’s childhood.A woman’s first lie. A soldier’s last regret. A Hollowborn’s first hunger. A Witness’s first betrayal. All of it poured at once, crashing through the Spine like waves folding over each other.Callen staggered under the pressure. Ember dug her nails into his wrist. “Stay anchored.”“I’m trying,” Callen rasped.
CHAPTER 287 — THE ONE WHO REMEMBERS YOU
The world returned in fragments. White. Then black. Then the shuddering echo of a heartbeat that wasn’t Callen’s, or was his, multiplied through a thousand overlapping timelines.He lay on something soft and warm, like moss woven out of starlight. His chest rose with a shaky breath. His body felt… lighter, as if gravity was arguing about whether to keep him. “Callen…”Miles’ voice pierced the haze. Callen’s eyes snapped open. He lurched upright, wincing immediately as pain carved through his ribs, but he pulled the boy into a fierce embrace.“You’re okay,” he whispered, voice hoarse. “You’re okay.”Miles trembled against him. “I—I thought you were gone.”Callen squeezed him tighter. “Not leaving you. Ever.”The moment lasted one heartbeat too long before they both remembered the same absence. Ember. Callen pulled back. “Where is she?”Miles swallowed, eyes brimming. “I… don’t know. She fell through the rift, and then everything exploded and”A soft hum cut him off. Callen turned sharp
CHAPTER 286 — THE INTERCEPTOR
They fell for an eternity measured not in seconds, but in stolen memories. Images flashed past them in the dark, Callen as a child gripping a broken toy; Ember holding her mother’s hand on a rain-soaked balcony; Miles laughing as he chased fireflies down a fading street.Then darker things, the Hollowborn wars, the burning of the Meridian Tower, the first time Callen heard the Spine whisper his name. The fall ended without impact. They simply stopped.Callen staggered upright, breath ragged, as the darkness peeled away like an unfurling curtain, revealing a titanic chamber of fractured geometry.The walls weren’t walls at all but moving slabs of reality shifting in and out of sync. Pieces of cities floated in suspended cubes. Snatches of other worlds blinked in like faulty holograms.Ember stood beside him, clutching Miles close, her face pale but focused. “Where… is this?” she whispered.Miles scanned the shimmering, broken vistas with widening eyes.“I… I’ve never seen anything like
CHAPTER 285 — THE FRACTURE VOTE
There was no surface, no sky, no body, only a roaring lattice of memory-storms swallowing Callen and Ember whole.Light spun around them in spirals, each strand glowing with moments they had never lived and moments they’d forgotten they had.Callen reached for Ember, but his hand passed through hers like static. “Ember!”“I’m here !”Her voice echoed in the infinite, bending around itself, repeating in younger, older, broken versions. Something was wrong. They weren’t just in the merge.They were inside the decision. The voice of the fused entity, the third being, rippled around them, liquefying into a thousand shapes. “Two choices. Two outcomes. But not two people.”Callen gritted his teeth. “Show yourself!”“I am showing myself,” the being said from everywhere and nowhere. “Look.”A flare of brilliance snapped into form, and suddenly Callen was standing on a quiet shore of black glass.Ember was there too, whole again, stumbling onto her feet. Above them, the sky was a mosaic of mem
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