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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
CHAPTER 284 — THE NEW WEAVERS
The first sign that the world had crossed a threshold was the silence. Not peace. Not calm. Just a massive, oppressive muting, as if the entire planet had drawn one breath and forgotten how to exhale.Then the merging began. Across the shattered expanse of the Plateau, the hybrid army, Witnesses and Hollowborn fused through the Wake’s catastrophic pulse, lifted their heads in unison.Their pupils spiraled, fractal and liquid, reflecting thousands of moments at once. Faces glitched between shapes.Mouths whispered voices that didn’t belong to them. Their bodies flickered like overlapping photographs, jittering in and out of coherence. “Memory is migration.”“Identity is a climate.”“We are not people. We are continuity.”Dozens spoke those sentences at the same time, though none used the same tone. Callen instinctively stepped in front of Ember as the nearest hybrid soldier staggered forward.It looked vaguely human… until a second face slid across its cheek like a reflection on rippli
Chapter 283: The Archive That Dreamed
At first, Callen didn’t move. He simply stood and stared at the glass. Beyond it, Elira, lab-coat crisp, eyes calm, hair tied back, adjusted the settings on a holographic interface.Around her, the hum of machines filled the sterile air with the rhythm of a heartbeat that wasn’t his. His mind flooded with dissonance. He remembered dying. He remembered saving her. He remembered nothing.“Dr. Marr?” a voice said behind him.He turned. A technician, young, polite, wearing a MARROW badge marked continuity division. The kid smiled faintly.“You okay, sir? The reset left residual haze for some of the senior staff. Dr. Elira wanted you in Control when the tether logs finish rendering.”“Control,” Callen echoed. The word tasted wrong in his mouth, like something that used to mean home.He glanced back through the glass. Elira, alive, whole, human, glanced up and caught his eye. For a split second, her expression faltered. Recognition. Fear. Love.Then she smoothed it away, as though she hadn’
Chapter 282: The Echo That Refused to End
Light bent. Then broke. For one uncountable second, there was no sky, no ground, no Rift, only a memory of what those things once meant. Then the world breathed in again, wrong.Callen stood in the crater’s heart, or what was left of it. Air shuddered around him like glass stretched thin.His body flickered between forms, one heartbeat the soldier, next the Hollowborn’s silhouette, next something older that didn’t quite belong in human shape.Above him, the tear in the Rift writhed like a wound that refused to close. The Continuity’s veins pulsed out from it, snaring through the air, latching onto anything that remembered existing.When each thread touched ground, reality warped. A tower that had stood a kilometer away now hung sideways in the sky.Rivers flowed upward. Witnesses froze mid-motion, their bodies unraveling into data-ghosts. And at the center of it all, Elira.Not Ember. Not Hollowborn. Not Riftspawn. Elira, reborn through ruin. She hovered inches off the ground, spiral
Chapter 281: Continuity Error
When the white light faded, there was no sky. No ground. Only memory pretending to be geography.Callen lay on his back, gasping. The air was thick, not with smoke, but with fragments of thought trying to remember what “air” meant. He could feel it crawling into his lungs, reprogramming breath into data.Somewhere nearby, something moved, slow, deliberate. “Elira?” His voice cracked on the name.A soft hum answered him, like the world exhaling through a throat it hadn’t used in centuries. Shapes began forming around him, buildings, trees, the distant line of a city, but they were wrong.They were remembered versions, drawn from countless different histories colliding at once. A skyline of contradictions.Stone towers beside mirrored arcologies. A sun that flickered between dawn and dusk every heartbeat. And in the center of it all, she stood.The Source, Elira reborn, or something worse, was watching the horizon, eyes burning gold. Every step she took reshaped the ground beneath her,
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