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Nicholas Boothman
“No,” he said. “I think you were the only one
who could survive it.”
Carolina blinked, fists loosening though her
shoulders stayed taut.
“And now the missing fragments, they’re inside
me.”
Jinji’s eyes narrowed. “But locked. Buried. And
if you open them too fast…”
“I could fracture,” Henry said, “Or I’ll
remember everything.”
Carolina pressed a hand against the wall spiral.
“Then we’ll retrieve them carefully. One layer at a
time.”
Jinji’s phone pinged. “They’ve activated
something called Echo Chamber Protocol,” she
said, “That’s how they dig up what’s buried. “They
loop false memories until the real ones crack
through.”
“Loops!” Carolina said.
“Nightmares,” Henry answered. “The same lie
played again and again until the mind claws at the
bars. That’s when truth spills out. Or the subject
breaks.”
Across the country.
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