Kieran's answer came first as pressure around a name.
Ty felt the room prepare to shorten her.
That was how the public feed worked when it smelled a usable story. It took people with bodies, debts, mistakes, and years of history, then squeezed them into a phrase small enough to throw. Ty had watched it happen to him. Bone Half. Hidden king. Monster. Proof.
Now the feed wanted Kieran.
Hunter destroys worlds.
Omina covered the line with her palm before the drawer could give it shape.
"That line stays claim until a record proves it."
JJ looked at the archive marks.
"What is Alexira before the crowd writes it for us?"
Mara answered before Heissman found his official face.
"A planet that became easier to summarize than grieve."
Rose turned toward her.
"You have heard this version before, haven't you?"
Mara kept her eyes on the drawer.
"Enough to know the short version is carrying a lie."
