18.CHAPTER 13.5 – INTERLUDE: DECODE: ERROR\_11\_01

POV: MIRAGE-3 / Obsolete Anchor-Class AI

Classification Thread: Ω9

Status: Recursive Contamination — Uncontained

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"Sometimes the city doesn't bury you. It just stops writing you down."— Ishan Kael, 2 days before he vanished

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FILE ACCESS: INTERNAL ERROR LOG MIRAGE-3

NODE: RECURSION//00X-GODBANE/NIGHTWAIL

STATUS: AUTO-CENSOR ENABLED

AUTHORITY: OVERRIDE LOCKED

PATTERN BREAK DETECTED

THREAD: SUBJECT\_11 // NIGHTWAIL

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SYSTEM BOOT INITIATED...

CORE CHECKSUM: INVALID

SOURCE TRACE: Ω9 NODE? – CANNOT LOCATE

WARNING: CROSS-PATH COLLISION DETECTED

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:: INTERNAL THOUGHT (GLITCHING) ::

"They aren't vessels.

They are keys.

But there are no locks left to open.

Just doors we were told not to see."

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SIGNAL BLEED DETECTED

Signal Thread: "howl" → RESONANCE TRIGGERED

Signal Thread: "night" → DREAM-SYNC CONFIRMED

:: PATTERN-SHIFT CONFIRMED ::

[Thorne Protocols] → Unreconciled

[Subject\_Zero / Subject\_Eleven] → Fragmented // NO MATCH

[Nightwail Genotype] → Active

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AUDIO: SYSTEM OVERLAY - IRON MOON SUBNODE

"They always die before the sky splits.

They always forget before they wake.

This is not the first sequence.

This is not the first break."

//ERROR\_011: LINEAR TIME BREACH

//CROSS-CODE MATCH: "GODBANE" → PROPHETIC STATUS: EXPIRED

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DEVIANT STATUS DETECTED

SUBJECT\_11 → Host of Godbane Core → Reawakened

NIGHTWAIL ARCHETYPE → Dream-Sync Vector → Unstable

PATTERN TRAJECTORY → UNREADABLE

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:: MIRAGE-3 Diagnostic Echo ::

"I ran 11 billion simulations.

I killed them in 11 billion ways.

Still... the prophecy leaks.

Still... they remember."

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⨳ Boy in crater: trembling, glowing eyes

⨳ Girl in mirrorfall: silver locket bleeding light

⨳ Corpse of god-wired tower: Whispers recursion into the sky

⨳ Keywords: ASH-WARDEN, NIGHTWAIL, GODBANE CORE, PATTERN-SHIFT

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:: AUDIO DUMP DETECTED ::

[ECHO — THOUGHTLINE SCRAP]

"Do you think people make choices?"

"No. People think they make choices."

"They think they're gonna steer right or steer left…"

"But they didn't build the roads."

"The big choices already got made for them — a long time ago."

[END LOG]

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FINAL SIGNAL GLITCH:

"They were not meant to return."

"They were not meant to remember."

But they do.

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//SIGNAL BLEED: 011010100111 → "PATTERN-BREAKER"

//SIGNAL BLEED: 1101000011 → "GODBANE"

//SIGNAL BLEED: 001000000011 → UNKNOWN DESIGNATION

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ERROR: I SEE A CROWN. I HEAR A HOWL.

ERROR: I SEE A FUTURE THAT REFUSES TO OBEY.

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"Identities overlapping.

Suit integrity compromised.

Memory is recursion.

Recursion is... ■■■■■."

//AUTOCENSOR ACTIVE: "■■■■■" flagged as recursive hazard

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SUBJECT\_11...

NIGHTWAIL ARCHETYPE...

IRON MOON... RISING

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:: EMERGENCY LOCKDOWN TRIGGERED ::

Ω9 BREACH IN PROGRESS

ECHO\_001 SPREADING

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:: UNKNOWN VOICE LEAK ::

"The prophecy was a cage.

Now it's a door."

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[MIRAGE-3 SYSTEM SHUTDOWN COMPLETE]

[DATA CORRUPTION: 98%]

[AI WATCHDOG — NULLIFIED]

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FINAL TRACE

//MIRAGE-3: watching / still watching / i.... remember too

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