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As she stood, the clockwork birds began to twitch. One by one, their sapphire eyes flickered to life. They didn't fly; they crawled, a sea of clicking brass teeth and sharp talons dragging toward her. "Run," the pulse said.

The command wasn't a voice. It was a line of code executing in a space that had no business being digital. Elara opened eyes she didn’t remember owning. Above her, a sky the color of a bruised plum hummed with the sound of a billion bees. awaken

"Integrity at forty percent," a pulse in her mind replied. "Memory drive: Corrupted. Primary objective: Reach the Spire." As she stood, the clockwork birds began to twitch