(Ezekiel's POV)
"Echoes In Our Bones"
The Citadel still burns behind us.
I don’t look back.
We walk into a city that doesn’t know how to grieve. Fires cast long shadows over the Free Wards, sirens blare without destination, and the silence has been replaced by a new sound: people waking up.
But it doesn’t feel like victory. Not yet.
Because Lucien was just the head of the beast. And we just cut it off.
Which means the rest of it is still thrashing.
Cassandra moves like a ghost beside me—blood on her boots, soot in her hair, and a look in her eyes that could boil steel. She’s not just Ash Widow now. She’s the city’s reckoning.
And I’m her witness.
"The Code That Wouldn’t Die"
I plug into a broken relay hub beneath Sector 9. The signal’s jammed. But something keeps transmitting a
