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The Hub was a white marble monolith, sterile as a morgue. Inside, Kael let a guard scan his ID. The guard glanced at the birthdate. “Tomorrow’s your big day, eh? Congratulations.”

“Can’t wait,” Kael said, and meant it—just not the way the guard thought. preyme

He slipped into a maintenance corridor, following the Fragments’ instructions. The core was a pulsing sphere of light, humming with billions of half-processed memories. He pressed his palm against the access port. The virus—a tiny data-crystal embedded under his skin—began to upload. The Hub was a white marble monolith, sterile as a morgue

Preyme were the Unprocessed. Citizens under twenty-five whose neural streams hadn’t yet been harvested by the Chrono-Meridian Corporation. To be preyme was to be raw material: your memories, your latent skills, your fleeting dreams—all of it belonged to them once you turned twenty-five. On that birthday, you’d walk into a Reclamation Hub, lie down, and wake up empty. Productive. Compliant. A perfect cog. “Tomorrow’s your big day, eh

Kael didn’t run. He held on, screaming, as the virus tunneled deeper. His own memories began to fragment—his mother’s face, the smell of rain, Mira’s laugh. The system was fighting back by deleting him.