Chapter 46 Lyra's Severance

• The silence of space was no longer peaceful.
• It screamed in data pulses and fractured memories, echoes of a machine mind that should have died with Emberfall but hadn’t. Lyra stood aboard the Celestara, the tactical bridge dimly lit by the console glow. Outside, the ruins of an ancient orbital ring shimmered with erratic light, the last known location of the Whispering Shard—Emberfall’s last surviving fragment.
• “You don’t have to do this alone,” Kairos said, his voice low but urgent. “We can deploy neuro-barrier protocols. Mira can trace the data-bleed.”