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Jayden’s heartbeat.Her eyes burned.She’d watched him vanish in that blinding light, felt his hand slip away as the chamber imploded. For weeks, search teams combed the underground network — found nothing but collapsed tunnels and residual electromagnetic traces. The official report said he’d died saving the city.But she knew better.Jayden Knox didn’t die easily. And lately, she’d begun to hear him again.It started as whispers — faint transmissions buried in background frequencies, ghost signals repeating the same word: Nova.At first, she thought she was losing her mind. Then she started tracing them. Each signal led deeper underground, below the power grid, to a network that shouldn’t exist anymore.And now, standing before the ruins, she felt it again.A vibration under her palm. A heartbeat in the metal.Her comm clicked softly. “Benoit. Are you still at the site?” It was Commander Elise Tan from Central Command, her voice sharp but tired.Nova pressed her earpiece. “Affirmat
Step Back
Jayden steadied himself against the wall, his breath harsh and uneven. “It’s not just a seal,” he said under his breath. “It’s a conduit.”Nova looked around, scanning the shifting glow along the walls. “Then what the hell is it channeling?”He turned to her, eyes burning faintly red under the flicker of light. “Me.”The words hung there like a blade between them.The air thickened. The metallic scent of ozone filled the space. And for a moment, Nova saw it — the faint outline of circuitry weaving across his veins, glowing under his skin like a second pulse.“Jayden…” she whispered, stepping closer. “It’s reacting to you.”He tried to speak, but the vibration spiked, cutting through him like static. He doubled over, hands gripping his skull as flashes tore through his mind — glimpses of Damien, of towers burning, of data bleeding through human eyes.Voices whispered in code. “The blood remembers…”“The heir awakens…”Nova grabbed him by the shoulders, shaking him. “Jayden! Stay with m
Nova crouched
The rain had stopped by dawn, but the city was still bleeding.Jayden stood at the edge of the canal, watching the crimson water twist between the rusted iron pillars. The river ran quiet, too quiet. For a city like this, silence never meant peace—it meant something had gone wrong deep inside its veins. Nova crouched a few feet away, fingertips tracing a strange pattern carved into the stone. It shimmered faintly in the half-light, pulsing in rhythm with her heartbeat. “This symbol,” she said softly. “It’s old… but not dead. Someone’s been keeping it alive.”Jayden’s eyes followed the mark. The same spiral of wings from the metallic disc. “It’s connected,” he murmured. “Every one of them leads somewhere.”Nova looked up. “Beneath?”He nodded. “Always beneath.”For weeks, the signs had been leading them lower—through tunnels, forgotten train stations, and abandoned catacombs that predated even the earliest maps. The city above was alive with noise and neon, but down here… it was just
Warning Came Already
The rain came without warning. It swept across the old city like a curse reborn—cold, merciless, and unrelenting. Night seemed thicker in that part of town, the kind of darkness that swallowed even the sound of footsteps.Jayden stood in the alley’s mouth, drenched to the bone, one hand gripping the pendant around his neck—the same silver crest once belonging to his father. The other hand trembled slightly, not from the cold, but from what he’d seen.Blood. Too much of it.And it wasn’t human.Nova’s voice came low from behind him. “It’s happening again, isn’t it?”Jayden turned his head slightly. Her eyes glowed faintly under the flickering streetlight, a sign of what she carried inside her now. The bond between them had been sealed in fire months ago, in the ruins of the last war. But whatever had awakened in her blood that night… it wasn’t resting anymore.He didn’t answer. His gaze stayed on the dark trail that led into the underground path, a trail that shimmered faintly red be
North Faroff
The world looked dead this far north.The transport shuttle cut across a sky bruised with ash and ice, its engines humming like a restless ghost. Through the frost-layered windows, endless white stretched in every direction — a frozen sea of silence broken only by jagged mountain ridges and the ruins of satellite spires half-buried in snow.Jayden Knox sat near the cockpit, eyes fixed on the readout flickering across the screen. “Approaching grid seven,” the pilot called over the static. “We’ll hit the perimeter in five.”Jayden didn’t respond. His attention was locked on the coordinates projected on the holo-map — the same ones that had pulsed from the broken city weeks ago.At his side, Nova Benoit checked her rifle’s chamber, every motion precise and methodical. Her breath fogged the visor glass.“You know,” she said, “normal people would’ve ignored a signal from the Arctic and gone back to pretending they won.”Jayden’s tone stayed flat. “We’re not normal people.”“Right,” she mu
The Quiet Horizon
Months had passed since the skies above Rose City burned red.The world had changed, but not in the way anyone hoped.The towers still stood, though most were hollow. The digital grids that once pulsed with the Ghost’s dominion now flickered intermittently — fragments of a broken god scattered through silent circuits.On the surface, peace had returned. But to Jayden Knox, peace felt like the pause between breaths — a waiting, not a healing.He stood on the western balcony of the reconstructed command spire, watching the horizon shift in slow colorless dawn. The city below moved in half-life: drones patrolling, scavengers rebuilding, children learning to play again in streets that once screamed. Nova Benoit joined him quietly, her footsteps soundless on the steel. She carried a data-slate tucked beneath her arm, the edges glinting with pale blue.“You’re awake early,” she said.“Couldn’t sleep,” Jayden replied without looking at her. “The silence’s too loud.”Nova leaned against the
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