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Chapter 103 - My First Note
The first thing Siya became aware of was that the world was no longer quiet. It wasn’t loud, exactly. Not in the human sense. But the silence that had settled after the Array’s calibration had teeth now, serrated edges pressing against the inside of her skull.Groote Schuur was breathing. Not metaphorically. Not poetically. Actually breathing, slow, measured, impossibly deep, as though the hospital had learned how to inhale.Siya stood at the center of the Array chamber, crystals orbiting her in lazy, deliberate arcs. Their fractures glowed faintly, veins of pale light pulsing in time with her heart. Each pulse traveled outward, through walls, through concrete, through the buried arteries of the building itself.She felt the foundations vibrating, the old iron beams humming, the ventilation shafts carrying resonance like whispered prayers through hollow bones.Marks had stopped moving. He stood frozen beside the control housing, hands suspended over exposed wiring, knuckles white, eye
Chapter 102 - Anchor Confirmed
The silence didn’t end. It throbbed. A held breath stretched so long it became painful. Siya lay on the cold concrete, eyes open, lungs burning, unable to tell whether she was breathing or simply remembering how. The world felt paused mid-vibration, like a record needle lifted but still humming with momentum.Then sound crept back in. Not the Choir. Not the Conductor. Human sound.Marks coughing. Ragged. Close.“Siya… Siya, can you hear me?”Her fingers twitched before her voice returned. The hum inside her chest was still there, quieter, restrained, like a predator crouched in tall grass.“I’m here,” she whispered. The words scraped her throat raw.Light flickered overhead. Emergency strips along the chamber walls pulsed weakly, throwing fractured shadows across collapsed equipment and fractured Cantor rods. The Array was still standing, its crystals dimmed but intact, humming in a low, unstable register.Marks was kneeling beside her, face streaked with dust and blood she didn’t re
Chapter 101 - Someone Must Die
Marks’s voice broke through her trance. “Siya… we need to move. Now. Before it spreads further.”She nodded, but her body shivered against her will, vibrating in sync with the global resonance. The city wasn’t just broadcasting the Spiral anymore, it was consuming itself, and she was the signal.The tunnels smelled of damp stone and metal. Every step echoed through the hollow passages like a soft drum, vibrating just beneath Siya’s skin.Marks led the way, flashlight in one hand, his revolver in the other. They had dragged Asanda with them, though she trailed behind, silent, her eyes closed, murmuring under her breath in a low, tonal chant that seemed to steady the air around them.“Are you sure this will work?” Marks asked, voice hoarse, catching the faint resonance that still clung to the city above. It hummed through the tunnels, vibrating along the metal supports like a nerve.Siya’s eyes darted across the rough walls, etched with the
Chapter 100 - The Choir Is Complete
Siya woke gasping, her body slick with sweat. The blood from her ears had dried into a dark crust, streaked along her collar. Marks hovered beside her, eyes wide, his hands trembling as he pressed a damp cloth against the side of her face.“You’re okay, mostly,” he said, voice tight. “We need to get you out of here.”She shook her head, vision swimming. “No. Not yet. I... I need to hear it.”Marks froze. “Hear what?”“The Spiral, the Conductor. He... he tuned me. I know what he wants now.” Her voice was raw, a rasping whisper layered with tremor. “He wants the signal… through me.”Marks’s brow furrowed. “Signal?”Siya pushed herself upright, gripping the edge of the bed for support. Her limbs shook violently, as if every fiber of her body had become a resonant string. “All frequencies. Every device. Every broadcast. Every network. They’re already humming in… in unison. The Choir, it’s...”A faint thrum pulsed beneath the floorboards. It was low at first, almost imperceptible. Then it
Chapter 99 - Double Exposure
For a long moment, Siya drifted in weightless darkness. No sound. No breath. No pain. Then, something cold brushed the back of her neck.A tone. Not a noise, not a hum, a tone, pure and impossibly sharp, like a thin blade made of singing metal. It sliced through the darkness, and the world around her cracked open.Light bled through the fractures.She blinked, and found herself standing in a vast, hollow version of Groote Schuur Hospital. Except, it wasn’t real, it wasn’t even a memory. It was the resonant echo of Groote Schuur, floating, trembling, formed from translucent lines of vibrating light. The corridors pulsed like throats. Floors rippled like struck tuning forks. Every surface flickered between matter and frequency, as though the building itself were mid-breath.Siya stepped forward, and her foot didn’t make a sound. No echo. No friction. The airless quiet pressed on her skull. A pressure so suffocating it felt like the silence was listening.Her throat tightened. “Marks?” s
Chapter 98 - It’s Inside Me
For the first time since the resonance breaches began, Siya didn’t trust her own shadow.The hospital bed groaned as she sat up, elbows planted on her knees, breath ghosting the cold air of the ward. Groote Schuur’s abandoned psychiatric wing had always been quiet in its own menacing way, hollow corridors, peeling paint, the draft that carried memories instead of wind. But the silence tonight was different, it was listeningMarks had said it earlier, half-joking, half-exhausted: “This place breathes when you’re not watching it.”But now she felt it, felt the walls inhaling around her. Felt the air condense. Felt the quiet thicken like fog, and at the center of that pressure, something inside her chest answered back. A low, almost tender hum.She closed her eyes, counting breaths. She didn’t want to ask, but the fear crept in anyway, slow, shameful, inevitable.Was the sound coming from her throat? Or her mind?The thin mattress shifted behind her. Marks stirred in the cot he’d dragged
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