TWENTY FOUR
🕯️ Chapter 24 – The System’s Reawakening Morning never seemed to come to the mansion. The curtains were wide open, yet darkness lingered, and the flickering lights seemed alive, pulsing with a rhythm of their own. Althea stood before the mirror, holding an old pendant she had found inside the abandoned building the night before. Etched on its surface were the words: > “Eterna – For the one who must continue.” She closed her eyes. With every heartbeat came the overlapping voices inside her mind — Lea’s, Clarisse’s, Xavier’s… and beneath them all, another voice — her own, but different. > “You are not the original. You are the new creation.” > “No…” she whispered, clutching her head. But as she looked back at her reflection, it began to shift — her hair shorter, her eyes
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