Hematological Hieroglyphs

9:14 PM | Argent Mobile Lab Train, Secret Track Under Hudson River

The stolen MetroCard burned through my pocket - June's birthday memory degradation now synced with train schedules. Rook's subway sigils glowed across my corroded hippocampus, guiding me through Argent's camouflaged research carriages disguised as MTA maintenance vehicles.

Blood Analysis Revelation:

● June's erythrocytes contained inverted Elder Futhark (visible only under 666nm wavelength)

● Leukocyte structure matched 1927 Alchemist Union fire victim DNA profiles

● Platelets arranged into micro-ritual arrays harvesting childhood trauma hormones

The train shuddered as we passed through a quantum tunnel. My reflection in laboratory glass showed memory tumors bulging beneath scalp tattoos. A security hologram of Voss materialized, holding June's bone marrow biopsy slides like tarot cards.

"Your sister isn't poisoned - she's the poison," Voss crooned, projecting data onto blood smears. "Every transfusion since her leukemia diagnosis planted fragments of the Ravenous Glyph in her marrow. You've been our delivery system."

10:33 PM | Hemoglobin Alchemy Combat

Argent's hematology-engineered guards attacked with weaponized hemoglobin:

● Sickle-cell blades shaped from crystallized trauma memories

● White blood cell drones injecting memory-erasing cytokines

● Plasma tendrils etched with stock market panic runes

Transmutation Cost:

● Sacrificed 22% of June's pre-illness memories to convert oxygen tanks into iron-binding golems

● Used Rook's subway mnemonic network to rewrite my blood type (temporarily becoming universal donor/weapon)

Critical Memory Corruption:

● Family camping trips overwritten with Argent lab safety videos

● June's first seizure now plays as corporate training simulation

11:47 PM | Bone Marrow Crypt Ritual

The train's final car revealed a pulsating altar - June's stolen stem cells culturing in a diamond-encased femur. The Ravenous Glyph glowed beneath petri dishes, its true purpose unveiled:

Argent's Endgame:

● Glyph designed to collapse NYC's memory economy into Voss' neural blockchain

● Every citizen's recollections to be traded as cryptocurrency via Wall Street-aligned runes

● June's "illness" served as Trojan horse to implant alchemical compliance sigils

Midnight | Sacrificial Countermeasure

I smashed the containment field using Wu's cryo-chamber as battering ram, triggering hybrid alchemy:

● Merged subway graffiti runes with June's corrupted blood patterns

● Weaponized Argent's own memory arbitrage algorithms against their servers

● Transmuted guard corps' hemoglobin into living apology letters to their families

Memory Ledger Catastrophe:

● June's Face Recognition: Degraded to 41% (Mouth movements now match Voss' speech patterns)

● Gained: Blood Transmutation Art (Unlocked at 57% efficiency)

● Lost: All memories of healthy June prior to diagnosis (Sacrificed to power counter-ritual)

The collapsing lab train ejected me onto tracks beneath Chinatown. My eyes adjusted to find fresh blood sigils glowing on wrists - not my own. Rook's voice crackled through payphone static: "Check your last intact childhood photo."

Polaroid from June's 7th birthday dinner now showed Voss cutting her cake. The blood patterns in her IV tubes matched the Ravenous Glyph's latest mutation - and my new wrist markings. Across the tunnel, Argent drones reassembled into a colossal version of June's chemo port, its needle aimed at Freedom Tower's transformed spire... now glowing with perfected Elder Futhark market runes.

Memory Ledger Update:

● New Corruption: Self-Identification Failure (12% probability of believing I'm Voss' prototype)

● Acquired: Hematological Transmutation Knowledge (Limited by remaining "pure" June memories)

● Alert: Subway Mnemonic Network now broadcasting Argent jingles as underground train horns