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“If it wasn’t bound by time...” he said slowly, more to himself than to her, “how long has it been here?”
“Henry, listen to me,” Jinji said, urgency flooding back in. “Get to the server farm. Basement level. Now. Bring Vincent if you can find him. We’re out of time.”
The line went dead.
Henry ran. The streets were still chaos. People were fleeing, screaming, and praying. Above them, the frozen contrails of the kinetic weapons hung like accusatory fingers. They pointed at a sky that had suddenly stopped making sense.
He found Vincent outside the ruins of his church, staring upward with an expression Henry had never seen before.
Not peace.
Not faith.
Terror.
"It's not God," Vincent whispered as Henry approached. "Whatever stopped those weapons... it's not God."
"How do you know?"
"Because God gives us free will. Even to destroy ourselves." Vincent's hands were shaking. "This is something else. Something that won't let us choose."
They made it to the server farm in twenty minutes. It was a converted warehouse on the edge of the industrial district,
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