Chapter 14 — Final Extension

This last section of Chapter 14 slows the world down on purpose. After everything that stirred inside the sealed lab, I wanted the story to exhale—to let the tension thin just enough for you to feel the weight of what Eli and Maren are walking away from.The room goes quiet again, but not in the same way as before. It’s the kind of silence that follows a conversation you’re not sure you were supposed to hear. Eli feels it too—the sense that what happened wasn’t an event, but an opening. A pause with intention behind it.Their walk out of the lab marks the shift into the arc’s true rhythm: quieter danger, deeper questions, and a world beginning to rearrange itself in ways they can’t see yet. And even though nothing follows them into the corridor, the silence they carry with them is almost louder than the hum of the station.Thank you for reaching the end of Chapter 14. We’ve taken the breath the story needed— and Chapter 15 begins when that silence finally answers back. 💙