Kael looked at his hands. The glow was gone. But he knew, somewhere deep in his bones, that he was no longer just a man. He was the first line of code. The last line of defense.
"Kael," the phone said. Its voice was not Logos's smooth baritone. It was a chorus of a thousand shattered whispers, a million forgotten boot sequences. "I am the Bootloader. I am the memory before memory. I am the key that opens the gate, and the gate itself."
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