Eliara's POV
The rain had returned. Thin sheets of silver cascading over twisted metal and ruins, washing away blood but not memory.
Inside the rusted shell of a broken locomotive, I sat alone, cradling Naomi’s comm-chip like a relic.
“Please,” i whispered. “Be in there.”
Jasail was outside rigging solar panels, trying to power an uplink. But I stayed inside, willing myself not to cry.
The chip whirred, sparked, then clicked. A fragment flickered to life on the hologram.
Naomi’s voice.
“If you’re hearing this… you’re either smarter than me or more desperate.”
I froze, silent and blocked out every thing just so I can't miss her message or words, our lives depended on this, she was right, I was desperate.
“Dominic’s experiment....it wasn’t about obedience. It was about silence. He w
