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chapter 10: the woman in static
Author: Liamneche02
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The alarms screamed through the hall like dying machines.

Red light pulsed through the glass walls, throwing Jason’s shadow against the servers like a ghost trying to escape his body. The words on the screen burned brighter with every flash:

SUBJECT MOTHER: STATUS – ALIVE.

Jason didn’t move. He couldn’t. His brain couldn’t understand what his eyes were seeing. The woman who had died in a hospital fire when he was ten, the woman whose voice he had tried so hard to forget—was somehow alive?

He stepped closer to the screen, the light painting his face crimson.

His voice broke.

“What kind of sick trick is this, Victor?”

Victor’s reply came through the intercom, smooth, calm, proud—the kind of voice that didn’t need to shout to destroy you.

> “It’s not a trick, Jason. It’s the truth. Your mother isn’t gone. She’s been with you every second of your life.”

Jason’s jaw tightened. “You’re lying.”

> “No. I saved her. The night the hospital burned, I retrieved her body. Her br
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