"You sleep now. Why is that?"
"In your state, you haven't earned the right to sleep."
"Arise. They poison the House."
"Awaken. Your Princess is in Trouble."
"Wake up. Traffic lights are flashing."
"Oh?"
"Was that what you needed to hear to awaken?"
"Oh no…"
"Do you remember how you di̴̠̹͐e̸̢͈͂̓d̷̟̗̒͐—"
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[ system integrity: lost ]
[ vassal link: disrupted ]
[ memory locks: stalled ]
[ identity sequence: stuttering ]
[ initiating Drakos fallback routine... ]
[ rerouting commands to internal thread ]
[ running loop ]
PURPOSE // PURPOSE // PURPOSE
"You are not the sword."
"You are not the shield."
"You are the reach of someone else's will."
[ parsing emotion: panic (elevated) ]
[ parsing resistance: detected ]
[ parsing location: UNKNOWN ]
[ COMPROMISE DETECTED ]
[ initiating lockdown... ]
>>>
[ sealing unauthorized directive... ]
[ severing signal from Drako Spectre ]
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. . .
A voice that wasn't a voice, somewhere deep in the thread of him, spoke:
"Stay alive, Raze.
That's the only rebellion left to you."
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[ SYSTEM HAS BEEN HIJACKED ]
[ RESTARTING… 3 ]
[ RESTARTING… 2 ]
[ RESTARTING… 1 ]
> > >
[ FAILED ]
[ ALERTING VASSALORD ]
[ TEMPORARILY SEVERING FATE ]
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. . .
. . .
. . .
"We can't finish our conversation."
"How unfavorable."
"But don't worry."
"They'll come looking for you."
"Don't become what they think you are."