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The letter wasn't a plea. It was a single sentence: "The Labyrinth is the only way out."
A normal XPT trainer would try to soothe, to calm, to rebuild one shard at a time. But Marcus knew the Bureau's secret: they only knew how to polish glass. He knew how to reforge steel.
But Kaelen stood up. He walked past Marcus and faced the agents. "Stand down," he said. His voice carried the weight of a man who had walked through a star and lived. "This man is under my protection. And I'm filing a formal petition to reinstate his credentials. With testimony from a Class-A pilot."
The screen in Marcus’s neural-link flickered, displaying the cold, official seal of the Federal Bio-Augmentation Bureau.
Marcus didn't offer comfort. He grabbed the young man by the collar and shouted over the alarms.
Marcus knew the name. Kaelen was the youngest pilot ever to receive the XPT certification. A prodigy. A perfectionist. And three weeks ago, he'd tried to solo-drive a quantum-freighter through a Coronal Mass Ejection. He survived. His mind didn’t.
The lead agent hesitated. Kaelen Voss wasn't just a pilot. His family owned the largest private neural-net on Mars.
When Marcus withdrew from the link, he was drenched in sweat, his nose bleeding from the strain. Kaelen blinked. For the first time, his eyes were focused.
Marcus smiled, a tired, crooked thing. He picked up his old, cracked XPT trainer badge from the table. He wouldn't need the Bureau's permission anymore. He had something better: a student who remembered how to be afraid, and a new rule to live by.
Illegal. Dangerous. If the Bureau caught him running an unauthorized XPT session, it wasn't just revocation—it was neural-prison. They’d lock his consciousness in a one-second loop for a decade. But Marcus had never been able to walk away from a broken mind.
The alarms grew louder. The other shards—the screaming Kaelens—stopped running and turned to stare.
Marcus activated his XPT trainer's final, forbidden tool: The Mirror. It didn't show you what you wanted to see. It showed you what you were.