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A BREAK IN THE SEAM
CHAPTER 122 :Dawn crawled over the mountains like it was afraid to touch the world.Thin, gray light spilled into the stone ridge where the three of them had made camp, casting long shadows across the broken terrain. The wind carried dust, heat, and the distant groan of shifting earth — the volcano wasn’t close yet, but Tyla could already feel the tension humming beneath them like something alive.Billy stood at the edge of the ridge, facing the horizon. The relic pulses along his collarbone were dimmer this morning, but they were still there — faint glimmers like molten veins under the skin. He seemed calmer, but Tyla didn’t trust the quiet. Quiet usually meant the relic was waiting, watching, coiling itself for whatever came next.She joined him without a word. She didn’t have to ask if he’d slept — she already knew the answer. He’d spent the night pacing, breathing through waves of pain, and pretending it wasn’t as bad as it looked.Behind them, Owen scuffed around their equipment
THE FEAR SHE DIDN'T WANT TO NAME
CHAPTER 121 :Tyla had seen Billy bruised, exhausted, reckless, stubborn enough to chew fire if it meant protecting someone he cared about — but she had never seen him like this.Soft evening light spilled into the cavern, flickering against the metallic veins now crawling along Billy’s neck. He sat hunched forward, elbows on his knees, breathing in slow, controlled drags like he was afraid exhaling too hard might crack something inside him.The relic wasn’t just bonded to him anymore.It was inside him — a second pulse, an echo beneath his heartbeat, whispering like a distant hummingbird behind his ribs.Tyla watched him from across the cramped cavern, pretending she wasn’t studying every twitch of his fingers, every drag of his breath, every tiny moment he blinked a second too slow. She kept her voice quiet when she finally spoke.“Does it still hurt?”Billy didn’t look up at first. His jaw tightened — that tiny clench he always did when the answer was “yes” but he wanted to pretend
WHISPERS IN THE BLOOD
CHAPTER 120 :Billy didn’t speak for almost a full minute.He just knelt on the cracked ground, breathing like someone trying to force their soul back into place. The relic had quieted… but not fully. Tyla could still feel the faint hum of it beneath his skin — like something alive pacing behind a door.Owen paced nearby, checking the ridge with tight, agitated steps.“We have maybe… what, two hours? Three? Before the Curator reaches the volcanic zone.”“Less,” Billy muttered without lifting his head.Tyla leaned closer. “What do you mean less?”Billy swallowed, forcing himself to speak through the shaky exhaustion. “When he stole the map, I felt the route imprinting. The relic… it recognized the constellation path the moment the Curator activated it. He’s already aligning the direction signatures. If he’s smart—and he is—he’ll use the northern fault-line shortcut.”Owen’s face drained. “That cuts travel time by half.”“Exactly.”Tyla cursed under her breath. She’d hoped they had some
THR CURATORS SLIPS THROUGH
CHAPTER 119 :Billy was still trembling when Owen forced him to sit upright, but Tyla kept one hand braced against his back in case another seizure hit. The ground around them was scarred — the relic’s outburst had carved thin, jagged fissures through the dirt like lightning had crawled under the earth.Billy blinked, exhausted, his eyes still carrying that faint unnatural glow.He hated it. She could see the shame in his jaw, the way he wouldn’t meet her gaze.“Slow breaths,” Tyla murmured, guiding him. “You’re back. Stay here with me.”But Billy shook his head, his voice barely steady.“Where’s… where’s the Curator?”And just like that, the panic Tyla had been suppressing roared back to life.Because she hadn’t seen him.Not since—Not since Billy collapsed.Owen cursed under his breath. “Damn it. I should’ve kept my eyes on—”A sharp whistle sliced across the wind — distant, high, almost metallic. All three of them snapped their heads toward the ridge.A silhouette moved across the
WHEN THE BODY BETRAYS
CHAPTER 118 :Billy didn’t even make it three steps before his knees buckled.One second he was breathing hard but steady, clutching the newly-retrieved key fragment like he could force it to behave. The next—his entire body seized. His spine arched so violently Tyla heard it crack, and the air around him snapped with a static that made the hairs on her arms stand up.“No—no, no, Billy… Billy!”Tyla caught him just before he hit the ground, but his weight dragged her down too. His muscles jerked out of rhythm, like something inside him was pulling the strings without knowing the patterns of a human body.His eyes weren’t his eyes.Not anymore.The pupils had thinned into star-shaped slits, glowing faint azure from the inside, like embers trapped behind glass.“Billy, talk to me!” she begged, smacking his cheek lightly. “Hey—stay with me! Don’t you disappear on me!”But he couldn’t hear her.Couldn’t even see her.His jaw clenched hard enough that a line of blood trickled where he bit
THE FRAGMENT'S.EMBRACE
CHAPTER 117 :Billy’s hands trembled slightly as he held the key fragment. Its energy thrummed against his palms like a living heartbeat, pulsing in resonance with his own. Unlike anything he’d experienced before, the fragment wasn’t just an object—it was aware. Responsive. Demanding recognition, alignment, and control.They had escaped the chaos of the auction hall, ducking into a narrow side corridor that led to the building’s lower maintenance levels. The dim lighting reflected off the polished steel walls, casting long, jagged shadows that twisted like living things. Tyla moved beside him, her presence steadying. She kept a hand close to his arm, grounding him through the fragment’s insistent vibrations.Billy closed his eyes, focusing inward. He could feel the fragment’s essence weaving into his own energy signature. It wasn’t malicious, but it was insistent—demanding more than passive acceptance. It wanted him to bond, to synchronize fully. And as he felt its power coiling aroun
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