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Chapter 118: The Witness Thief
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Svalbard Archipelago – Valkyrie Prime Cold Archive Facility 03:08 UTC

Beneath layers of ice and steel, in a bunker older than any current regime, the hum of memory filled the silence. But these weren’t files. They weren’t data. They were souls emotional imprints stolen from the original Hundred Witnesses. Their laughter. Their grief. Their voices, frozen in looped resonance patterns, replayed over and over again like haunted lullabies. A technician typed commands beside a screen labeled: Memory Suite: AURORA. Access Level: Prime. Status: Active Harvest. “Prep batch twenty-two,” he said. “Cleansing to begin in six hours.”

Zurich – Circle of Smoke, War Room Frank dropped the report like it burned his hand. “You were right,” he said. “They didn’t just replicate the resonance grid.” He turned to Legacy. “They mined it.” Dr. Skov pulled up the decrypted logs. “Valkyrie Prime’s new interface uses harvested memories raw emotional moments lifted from the Witnesses during Chordfall. They’re re
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