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Chapter 8 - Chapter 8 – The Unwritten Knight

By IMERPUS RELUR 

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Reya led him away from the crowd.

Through alleys of flickering code.

Past broken projections of citizens who no longer existed.

Into a space the system couldn't track.

A place beneath the world, beneath the programming.

> "You're not supposed to be here yet," Reya said. "But this world is leaking. Something woke you up too early."

> "What am I to this place?" Kai asked.

She turned and looked him in the eye.

> "You're the creator who abandoned the pen."

They entered a vast underground hall—lined with glass tubes. Inside each floated a figure. Half-formed. Some children. Some beasts. Some gods with no face.

Each labeled:

> [Memory Sketch – Discarded]

Status: Unstable / Soul Incomplete

Kai felt his heart tremble.

> "I drew these," he whispered.

> "You began them," Reya said. "But you never finished. So they've stayed like this—half awake. Dreaming of becoming real."

She approached one tank.

Inside was a version of Kai—but older. Eyes hollow. Holding a brush that bled light.

> [FORGOTTEN SELF – Variant 0.7]

> "Some of them are you," Reya said.

> "Then what are you?" he asked.

She smiled faintly.

> "I'm what happens when a drawing draws herself. I was born the moment you stopped believing in boundaries."

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The floor beneath them pulsed.

> [CONTRADICTION DETECTED]

Unwritten Entity Identified. Paradox Form Confirmed.

Adaptive System Engaged.

A seal broke behind her.

The doors to the core of the city opened on their own.

> "We have to reach the Tower's Heart," Reya said. "Before she does."

> "She?"

Reya's sword lit with white ink.

> "The one you erased first. She's waking up."

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