The world dissolved around me.
One second, I was reaching for Kane, begging her to remember. The next, I was nowhere.
Not darkness. Not light. Not even the static void I had grown used to when the system reset itself. This was something else. Deeper. A place between places, where time didn’t flow and space didn’t hold shape.
The air was thick, heavy, pressing against my skin like unseen hands trying to crush me into nothing.
Then, I saw them.
The Overseers.
They stood in a line, stretching into infinity, figures draped in shifting code, their bodies flickering between forms—human, machine, something beyond either. Their faces were featureless, but I could feel their eyes on me, studying, measuring.
And then I saw them.
The frozen figures standing behind them, trapped mid-motion, th
