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Layla swallowed. "That's... that's the path to the Isu's lost library. No one's ever unlocked it."

"Eivor," Basim's voice echoed, layered with a metallic harmony. "Or should I call you the anomaly ? You carry Odin's DNA, but you refused his destiny. You chose the axe over the staff. Now, the simulation is rebelling. It wants a hero who bends . I am here to debug you."

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"I can't stabilize it!" Layla yelled. "You're in the bleeding edge of the simulation. One wrong move and your mind scatters across the server."

"Your 'Animus' is a cage," Eivor snarled, leaping from the plinth. She landed in a crouch, the Hidden Blade extending. "Where is my clan? My brother?"

Layha's fingers flew across her tablet. A map of England appeared, but it was wrong—cities of glass and steel rose alongside longhouses. A glitched hybrid timeline. Layla swallowed

"Because," Eivor said, stepping into his guard, "a wolf doesn't bite with a borrowed fang."

Basim lunged, his bracer forming a blade of pure null-light. He was faster than any human, predicting her moves before she made them. He was the perfect AI warrior.

The plinth glowed blue. A doorway opened—not to Norway, not to England, but to a new, undiscovered strand of the simulation. A river of stars. No one's ever unlocked it

"You're not supposed to be conscious," Layla said, her voice tight. "The Animus is glitching. Badly. Someone inserted a corrupted fork of your saga into the Gray."

Basim paused, his fractal eyes flickering. "Error. Query: Why disarm?"

"No—" he hissed, his voice fracturing into a thousand forgotten voices. "I am the correction —"

She drove his own blade into his core.