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A HOST With A PLUSE
Chapter 195 :The first thing the shadow learned about having a body was pain.Not the clean, distant ache of collapsing dimensions or tearing rifts — but the small, irritating kind. A tightness in the jaw. A pulse behind the eyes. The slow burn in muscles that had been held tense for too long.It hated that.But it endured it.The man—the host—stood in the mirror of a public restroom, palms braced against the sink, breathing through his nose as if he could outrun the pressure building behind his thoughts. The fluorescent lights hummed overhead. A faucet dripped somewhere behind him.Ordinary sounds. Ordinary place.Nothing about this moment would ever make the news.And that was exactly the point.“You’re real,” the man muttered, staring at his own reflection. His pupils were too dark. Too focused. Like something had adjusted the aperture of his mind and forgotten to dial it back.The shadow did not respond in words.It responded by settling.The sensation crawled under his skin—not
THE THING THAT WALKED AWAY
Chapter 194 :The world did not end loudly.There was no final scream from the sky, no global blackout, no instant understanding that something ancient had slipped through humanity’s fingers again. Instead, the world did what it always did best.It kept going.Traffic lights flickered back into rhythm. News anchors adjusted their ties and talked about seismic irregularities, unexplained volcanic pressure releases, and “localized atmospheric disturbances.” Scientists argued on panels. Governments issued statements that said everything and nothing at the same time.Life continued.Which was exactly why the shadow survived.Far from the ravine where Billy, Tyla, and Owen moved carefully through unfamiliar terrain, something thin and wrong drifted through the cracks between places. It didn’t bleed. It didn’t breathe. It didn’t exist the way things were supposed to.It persisted.The shadow had learned something in the collapse.It had learned that force drew resistance.And resistance hur
OWEN SAYS IT OUT LOUD
Chapter 193 :They didn’t stop moving until the terrain flattened and the air stopped tasting like burned metal.By the time they reached the narrow ravine where Owen said they could lay low for a few hours, the sun was fully up—pale and weak behind a veil of ash-clouds that still hadn’t decided whether they wanted to clear or choke the sky forever. The world looked bruised. Like it had survived something and didn’t know how to feel about it yet.Billy dropped his pack and leaned forward, hands on his knees. His lungs burned. Not the supernatural burn he’d gotten used to—the clean, ordinary kind that came from pushing a body past what it wanted to do.He almost welcomed it.Tyla lowered herself onto a rock nearby, slow and careful. She still looked fragile, like one wrong movement might undo her again, but there was color back in her face now. Real color. Not relic-glow. Not rift-light.Human.Owen stood apart from them, scanning the horizon through binoculars he didn’t really need an
WHEN SHE WAKES
Chapter 192 :Billy hadn’t slept.Not really.He’d closed his eyes a few times, let exhaustion pull him under in shallow waves, but every time his body tried to sink properly, panic snapped him back awake. The image replayed without permission—Tyla’s body going slack in his arms, her skin cold, her breath gone so quiet he thought it had stopped for good.So he sat there instead.Rock wall at his back. Knees pulled up. One hand resting lightly against Tyla’s wrist like he was afraid she’d vanish if he let go. The night air was thin and bitter, ash still floating like dirty snow, but he didn’t move to get warmer.He didn’t deserve comfort.Tyla lay stretched out on a makeshift bed of jackets and packs. Her face was pale, lashes resting too still against her cheeks. Owen had checked her vitals twice, then a third time just to be sure, muttering something about shock and delayed fallout from rift exposure.“She’s alive,” Owen had said eventually. “That’s not nothing.”Billy hadn’t answere
WHAT REMAINS
Chapter 191 :Billy knew something was wrong the moment he tried to stand and the world didn’t answer him.Normally, when he moved, the air reacted. Not consciously—he’d stopped thinking about it a long time ago—but the relic’s power always whispered through his muscles, steadied his balance, sharpened his senses. It was like gravity had been negotiable around him.Now?Nothing.His knee buckled, and he caught himself awkwardly on one hand, palms scraping against ash-coated stone. The impact sent a dull shock up his arm—real pain, not filtered, not softened.Billy froze.That hadn’t happened in years.Tyla stepped forward instantly. “Billy—”“I’m fine,” he said too fast, pushing himself upright again. This time he made it, but the effort left him breathing harder than it should have. His heartbeat thudded loudly in his ears, uneven and heavy.Owen noticed too. Of course he did. “Try again,” Owen said carefully. “Slow.”Billy clenched his jaw and focused—not on strength, but on reach.
LOST FOREVER
Chapter 190 :The air smelled of ash and heat, sharp against Billy’s nostrils like the world had been burned clean of everything that mattered. Even as the adrenaline of the collapse faded, his body refused to relax. Every muscle ached, every nerve sang with exhaustion, and yet the loss inside him felt heavier than any physical pain could ever be.He sank to the scorched ground, letting the weight of the moment press him down. His hands were still trembling from the relic bond snapping, the surge of energy that had protected Tyla, that had saved him from the gateway, that had kept him from losing control completely. And yet, none of it mattered anymore. None of it could bring back the one person who had anchored him in ways he hadn’t realized he needed.Billy’s chest tightened, an invisible fist crushing him from within. His father. Alexander Anderson—he felt absurd even thinking the name aloud after everything, but it was the only one that fit. The man he had reached for in the rift,
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