> Choice Confirmed:
☑ Pull Maris into Flame
Warning: Unstable Null Thread Conversion
Risk: Collapse of Sovereign Flame Structure (60%)
Bond Threads: 5 Active
If Integration Fails: All Current Threads May Sever
Ryon gripped Maris's wrist, harder.
Not to restrain.
But to anchor.
"Come back to me," he said, voice cracking.
"You don't belong to the System. You never did. You're not a weapon. You're not a code."
"You're Maris."
Her eyes fluttered. The glyphs pouring from her mouth stuttered, glitched, sparked.
For a second—
The sky changed.
Not the real sky.
The System's sky.
Lines of golden thread arced downward and tried to tear her from him.
But he pulled harder.
And then they stepped forward.
Kaela, sword raised: "She's part of your past? Then we'll fight for her future."
Elara, quiet but fierce: "No soul deserves to be overwritten."
Lyria, light blooming in her hands: "If this kills us… we still choose you."
