[POV: Sofia Lanka]

"Is everyone certain? Because once I authorize the final sequence, there is no undoing it. We won't just be stopping the fleet, and we won't just be silencing the clone. We are going to reach into the very marrow of our own bones and rip out the thing that made us 'special' in the first place. We are erasing the Gold-Eye gene from the human record. We will be ordinary, fragile, and utterly alone in a way our family hasn't been for three centuries. Lyon, Zara, Beatrice—are you ready to be just human?"

Sofia’s voice was a steady, rhythmic hum that belied the absolute chaos currently unfolding...