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Chapter 151: The First Spark
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Zurich – Circle of Smoke HQ Phase: FIRESTORM

Status: Unstable Global Resonance Threat Level: Escalating

Zora was the first to notice it. A whisper across the Drift. Not a voice. Not a signal. A burn.

“Someone’s lighting the echoes,” she said, staring at the resonance feed. “Torching memory clusters from the inside.”

Skov paled. “These aren’t just distortions. This is intentional collapse."

Frank stared at the map, one by one, entire sectors of emotional history were blinking offline. Not erased. Fused into silence.

Legacy closed her eyes. “The Veil has made their move.”

The Target

Within the hour, the Circle decoded the Veil’s first coordinated strike.

Not a city.

Not a vault.

A person.

Name: Dr. Alina Revnik

Former Emotia Architect

Whistleblower. In hiding.

She helped build the original Drift layers that made Emotia possible, and then tried to destroy them.

Frank: “If they silence her, we lose the original framework for Emotia’s internal memory scaffolding.”

Ella: “And Ember lose
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