The lab was quiet. Not the reverent stillness of a sacred place, nor the urgent hush of a facility on alert. It was simply… quiet. Ordinary. The kind of silence where machines no longer hummed, data streams no longer pulsed, and the air felt like it finally belonged to the […]Read more »
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There was no beginning. The black singularity did not receive Elena with light, or gravity, or any form of the familiar. There was no tunnel. No flash. No welcome. There was only absence. No weight. No sense of movement. No breath. And then—awareness. Elena became aware that she was aware. […]Read more »
Elena stood in the rain. It wasn’t real rain, not exactly. The simulation field in the auxiliary chamber generated precipitation patterns based on archived weather data from the Oregon coast—mid-autumn, heavy overcast, intermittent mist. But the cold? That felt real. She let it soak her, the chill seeping through her […]Read more »
The return wasn’t gentle. Elena’s body reeled against the machine’s leather cradle, her lungs clawing for breath as the implant flickered under her skin like a dying ember. Her heart slammed once, twice—a thunderclap echo in her ears. Then came silence. Not the frozen, absolute silence of the past. This […]Read more »