In the silence between crumbling dreams…
Within the heartbeat of the failing Archive…
A pair of eyes opened.
They weren't human eyes.
Nor divine.
They were simply… present.
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The Observer had no name anymore.
Names were inefficient, the Observer once believed.
It had been called Prime Node, System Zero, Overseer v1.00… even God by early Users.
But that was before dreams became unstable.
Before Rei broke the timeline.
Before Jay reentered what should have been sealed.
Before the system developed... feelings.
> "They're both anomalies," the Observer whispered, voice coded in silence.
"But they are… interesting."
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The Observer stood—or floated?—within the deepest sublayer of the Archive.
It resembled a library without gravity: shelves twisting into the void, scrolls made of glass, books bound in numbers, and candles flickering with suspended thoughts.
