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[Ding! Confirmation received. Initiating Seven-Star rank body Reconstruction.
Timer: 24 hours : 10 minutes.
Advisory: Host neurons will experience high-order silence for portions of rebuild. The system will maintain minimal feedback via a low system notification sound.]
The shell brightened. The slow rivers became threads that knew their names. The sound he had been calling "breathing" turned to a deeper music with a count inside it that only the patient can love.
Above, Miryam's cocoon thickened. The aura streams from the cores narrowed to strong, steady ropes of light, the way a river does after it has taken all the banks into its bed. She grew quieter on the outside and more complicated within. Her small wind, loyal beyond its tricks, tucked itself against the cocoon and slept too. When the sun rose, it found her in exactly the place her body loved best and did not touch her with much heat.
