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Chapter 130: Future Echoes
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Zurich – Circle of Smoke HQ Day 7 Post-EchoBorn Integration

Amari didn’t sleep. Not because she couldn’t. Because she wasn’t supposed to anymore. She sat beneath the resonance tree on the upper deck, eyes open, unmoving.

And then she spoke: “Frank, you will scream in twenty-one hours. You’ll think it’s rage. But it won’t be. It’ll be grief.” Frank stopped mid-step. The room went silent. He laughed, nervously. “Not funny.” Amari didn’t blink. “I’m not joking.”

The First Echo It came at 03:14 UTC. Frank was in the DeepSync lab, arguing with Ella over the security patch on Hearthline 7.2. Their voices escalated—then quieted. Then Frank’s expression broke. His hands trembled. He turned to the monitor. A news flash. His brother—long missing—was found. Dead. Unidentified in storage for seven years. The grief hit him like glass. And he screamed.

Exactly twenty-one hours after Amari said he would.

Zurich – Emergency Meeting Skov pulled up Amari’s scan. “Her resonance is no longer bound by his
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