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ECHO CRADLE: AWAKENING PROTOCOL

Chapter 2 Echo Cradle

Word Count: 948    |    Released on: 14/04/2025

2 - Ec

e air in Ridgepo

d radio while his mind replayed the night over and over. The drones, the glowing panel, the v

d with a coded m

NSET. SA

same thing: Echo Cradle wasn't jus

wait

forest's edge. The woods, once familiar

someone-or something-watching. Lena walked up front, fists clenched, jaw tight. Noah was q

d the hatch, it

eeling beside it. "No sign

omething-left it o

e silence more oppressive this time. The hum of low ene

ing the flickering wall panels and disabled

d spot on the ground.

ke they cleaned up aft

till operational," Jet

hter. The main console was lit, its screens pulsing with a dee

ward, hesitated,

the screens flickered and rearranged in

zes you," A

across the c

ÁRI - ACCESS L

e?" Noah

ared-and the floor be

revealing a hidden corridor previously masked by

invited in,

ke it a good ide

walked

Lights activated just ahead of their steps, illuminating stee

"Encrypted interface," he muttered. "This is

reak it?"

ed. "Eve

a central pedestal. As she stepped closer, the display flared to life, showing images-blurred, flickering scenes: four children la

word appeared:

called out, vo

ed again, showing schematics-DNA s

ADLE - GENETIC E

screen. "This was a

," Noah

ascaded past

: LENA

: NOAH

3: AY

4: JE

e, the weight of it

id. "This can

"But... the dreams. I keep seeing th

"They did something to us. Our pow

een working on hiss

l showing stone and roots above. In the center, a crystalline structure floated mida

reathed. "This is

gentle pulses of light toward each of them. As i

bjects active. Initial synchron

artificial. It had resonance, as if

nt from us?" Le

of sile

reme

e drone

ey swarmed from vents and shado

a corridor junction, triggering a magneti

is time deliberately-his shield

en pipe and swung w

, sound warped around her-distorting the air,

kly as it beg

-air. Powered down.

pulsed again

e said. "Memory locks... unstable. I

e chamber l

cture, something sti

more than just our m

e isn't just a lab. It's a fuse

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1 Chapter 1 The Signal2 Chapter 2 Echo Cradle3 Chapter 3 Something Inside Us4 Chapter 4 First Contact5 Chapter 5 Echoes of Origin6 Chapter 6 Disagreement7 Chapter 7 Hidden Files8 Chapter 8 Shadow Core9 Chapter 9 The Pulse10 Chapter 10 Retreat11 Chapter 11 Home Isn't Safe12 Chapter 12 Splintered13 Chapter 13 The Whisperer14 Chapter 14 A Town That Forgot15 Chapter 15 Underground Rumors16 Chapter 16 The Artifact17 Chapter 17 Red Sky18 Chapter 18 The Countdown19 Chapter 19 The Pact20 Chapter 20 The Whisperer21 Chapter 21 The Dive22 Chapter 22 Betrayer's Code23 Chapter 23 Ghost Town24 Chapter 24 Mimic Protocol25 Chapter 25 Shattered Echoes26 Chapter 26 A Spark Between Us27 Chapter 27 Vision Lock28 Chapter 28 Aya's Storm29 Chapter 29 Reunited30 Chapter 30 Beneath the Ice31 Chapter 31 Noah's Memory32 Chapter 32 Kaela33 Chapter 33 Beneath the Ice34 Chapter 34 Subject Zero35 Chapter 35 Failsafe36 Chapter 36 City of Glass37 Chapter 37 The Signal That Shouldn't Exist38 Chapter 38 The Cradle That Watches39 Chapter 39 The Siege Begins40 Chapter 40 Kaela's Last Gift41 Chapter 41 Echo of the Architects42 Chapter 42 The Fractured Moon43 Chapter 43 The Return of the Forgotten Suns44 Chapter 44 The Trial of the Unbound45 Chapter 45 The Sovereign Rewrite46 Chapter 46 Echoes Beyond Blood47 Chapter 47 First Contact: The Riven Arrival48 Chapter 48 The Makers49 Chapter 49 The Divergence Node50 Chapter 50 First Architects51 Chapter 51 Ashes of Eden52 Chapter 52 The Fifth Anchor53 Chapter 53 The Nexus Gate54 Chapter 54 Echoes of Becoming55 Chapter 55 Inheritance Protocol56 Chapter 56 The Gate Beyond Knowing57 Chapter 57 Echoes in the Architects' Silence58 Chapter 58 What Echoes Remember59 Chapter 59 When We Became Many60 Chapter 60 The First Interstice