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The Luminous Key

Dr. Elara Voss pressed her palm against the cold steel door, feeling the faint hum of machinery beneath her fingertips. The air in the sublevel lab smelled metallic, like rusted gears and static electricity. She had been here for three…

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The Static Bloom

## The Static Bloom Dust tasted like regret. Old metal, pulverized bone, the ghost of rain that hadn’t fallen in decades. Wren coughed, pulling her bandana tighter across her nose. The sun, a bruised plum low on the horizon, bled…

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