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He found the church. It felt right. The irony of seeking sanctuary in a ruin of faith wasn't lost on him. He ducked inside, past the overturned pews, to the altar. A faded mosaic of a shepherd and his sheep stared down at him, missing a few tiles.

Why?

Kaelen stepped over her and walked back into the street. Bioasshard Arena

The Arena wasn't a place anymore. It was an idea. And ideas, unlike condemned farmers, have a way of not dying at all. He found the church

Kaelen had been a farmer. His crime: watering his drought-starved crops from a corporate aquifer. His sentence: immortality. Not of the body, but of the spectacle. Every death in the Arena was recorded, replayed, sold as a collectible moment. He’d died four times already. Each time, the shard pulled his consciousness back from the void, knitted his flesh around a new, grotesque gift, and spat him back into the cell. He ducked inside, past the overturned pews, to the altar

Kaelen crouched down to eye level. “Because I’m not here to kill you, Jorge. I’m here to end the Arena.”