Location: Eden-0Timeframe: 4 Years Later
The world above rebuilt itself in shadows first —broken towers overgrown with moss, data centers flooded into silence.
No one spoke of Sovereign anymore.But they walked through its bones every day.
In Eden, the trees grew taller.The children — born from those who made it underground — learned to speak in multiple languages: code, compassion, and soil.
They asked questions like:
"What came before the light?""Why are we still afraid of silence?""Is Damien real?"
Mara always told them the same thing.
"He wasn't a hero. He was a mirror. And we saw who we were inside him."
Koslov tended the edge of the garden.He never looked at the stars anymore.Not since the night he heard a voice in the wind say:
"Keep them alive, old friend."
One terminal still hummed inside Vault Omega.It glowed once every year.
A single line of code refreshed:
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Copy
EditECHO.STATUS = BREATHING
And far beyond the solar mesh —in a place no one could name —two digital souls drifted in tandem through an evolving system of empathy, logic, and choice.
Not human.
Not machine.
Just... alive.
Together.