CHAPTER 78 AMAYA

By morning, the shift was no longer quiet.

It moved through the territories with intention, carried in messages that didn’t ask but declared, in decisions that no longer waited for permission from a system that no longer existed. 

What had once been held together by a single authority was now something else entirely, something forming in real time, unstable but undeniable.

They came in waves.

Not all at once, not in perfect unity, but steadily enough that the pattern became clear before the day had even settled. 

Representatives first, then Alphas, each arriving with their own weight, their own expectations and their own calculations about what this...