Chapter 57: The Clone Graveyard
You think the graveyard is where the dead rest. But Concord's graveyard is colder. Louder. Filled not with silence—but with heartbeat monitors and names that never made it out of the vat.
Scene: Virex Blacksite — Sub-Tier 14, 01:09 a.m.
The lab smelled like ammonia and old static.
Metal walls pulsed faintly with recycled air. Lights flickered every six seconds, precisely — not broken, just deliberate rhythm conditioning.
Ava walked first.
Echo followed close behind, her steps slower, more haunted.
"I remember this floor," Echo whispered."I wasn't born here. But something inside me was."
Aya scanned the wall panels.
Tessa watched the vitals spiking on her wrist console.
Rook said nothing.
Not because he was tense.