Chapter 34 The Man Who Shouldn't Exist

• Some lies come from enemies. Others are born inside your own truth. Gavik watched the distorted footage from the Ashfall crater a dozen more times. Every frame was scrubbed. Corrupted. But not randomly. The glitch wasn’t hiding a death. It was hiding a split. Two figures with identical movement, stance, wounds — yet only one rose. The other collapsed. But neither fully resembled Ash. Or Eron. He checked the file tags again.
• Each metadata signature listed a different identity code.
• One: RANE/ORIGIN.