A standard XPT trainer would use calming protocols, gentle reconstruction. Marcus was not standard.
It took six hours. Marcus guided the shards, not by forcing them together, but by showing them how to choose to rejoin. He taught Kaelen's broken mind a new pattern: not perfection, but resilience. The ability to break and still choose to stand up.
The alarms grew louder. The other shards—the screaming Kaelens—stopped running and turned to stare.
"I'm scared," the core Kaelen whispered.
He’d expected it. For six months, he’d been a ghost in the system, illegally rewiring the broken minds of veterans the Bureau had discarded. But knowing it was coming didn't stop the hollow ache in his chest.
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