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Nicholas Boothman
Chapter 17:
The Gifting of the Filter
The Shard’s demand, provide a viable protocol or
face Protocol Reset, was a cosmic ticking clock, cold
and absolute. Henry had bought time, but the shape
still rotated, silently absorbing the remaining
atmospheric chaos, its descent accelerating now that
the logic pathway was open.
Henry had minutes, not hours. He scrambled back
to the terminal, his mind racing through the
mathematical proof he had just forced the Shard to
acknowledge: Absolute Truth was Chaos; Absolute
Order was Atrophy. The only solution lay in the
middle: the Tiered Truth System, the very hypocritical
system his allies had branded as treason.
He needed Lina’s technical purity to ensure the TTS
was structurally sound and couldn't be corrupted by
the old, greedy lies. He needed Vincent’s moral clarity
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