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They say the Void is empty, but they’ve never heard it scream. I can still feel the vibration of my home world tearing apart every time I close my eyes. It wasn’t a quick death. The Gilded Maw didn’t just "mine" us; they fracked the very seconds we were living in. One minute I was Elara, a Nocti engineer with a life that made sense, and the next, the light didn’t just hit me—it went through me. I looked down at my hands and saw my own pulse. I saw the way my blood moved through my veins like glowing amber. I screamed, but I couldn't hear it over the sound of the universe folding in on itself. When the Syndicate pulled me out of the wreck