“Ayo’s Reckoning”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡygNFbx1HjE
The east records room was dark — only a single desk lamp glowed over a pile of dried ledger tape and blueprint sketches. Jabari stood beside the table; hands clasped behind his back.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYQQU8nwS0z
Ayo entered alone.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvZKW78gLxb
The silence was volcanic.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhDIdXaSYds
“You know why I called you,” Jabari said, voice flat.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSx1j3CD8pE
Ayo offered a faint shrug. “Because the girls found the card?”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKbB6T7suW
Jabari snapped a dossier onto the desk — a copy of Naomi’s Tribunal summary, ink still drying.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWOQ5JkwUjd
“Because you sabotaged a crate we sent in good faith. Because you exposed all of us.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAHwUXN9czw
Ayo stepped closer.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK9HIo4b79Q
“I didn’t poison anything. Not in the way you think. That card wasn’t to destroy Naomi. It was to prove Mercy’s poison… has no borders.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYylAPrSrE
Jabari frowned. “What does that even mean?”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsGHSFmTyaf
Ayo picked up a coil of magnetic wire from the desk, let it dangle.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9nm9MFfADJ
“You think this is about Mercy or Naomi or some crypt. But it’s not. It’s about how everyone keeps rewriting history just enough to feel like the hero. Mercy used truth as a weapon. Naomi used silence. And now we’re pretending you’re any different?”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ03GmVn04wd
Jabari’s voice grew sharp.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGEgW8sqzm
“You broke formation. You put everyone at risk.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHnLJxHKx8j
“No,” Ayo said calmly. “I reminded everyone that you’re not clean either.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHy3bMo5Mn3
He stepped toward Jabari.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHPsxnXlPpB
“We buried names too, Jabari. You kept the order clean by editing memory. I just didn’t want her to beat us at our own trick. So, I sent a message.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGExp9BlIzq
Jabari didn’t speak for several moments.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE45SrTkkia
Then, slowly: “You’re suspended from all wall operations. Your archive access is revoked. Musa will clear your codes from the relay. You move only with watchers present.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3y0e459gF
Ayo nodded. No fight. No protest.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD0yTYza20C
“As long as you understand... silencing me just proves my point.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZfl0Z3mFiP
He turned.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0JpWSs7VdN
Before walking out, he paused.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsWJkYTSchT
“Check the old boiler room under the lab tower.” You’ll find what Mercy left us. Or what we left buried first.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ626GSz9iDI
Jabari sits alone in the lamp light, staring at Ayo’s vacated shadow. He slowly sits, opens a fresh notebook, and writes at the top:90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp7DMMYF6G8
“Control isn’t memory. It’s delay.” Below it, he circles one phrase: Boiler Room – Legacy Remnants.
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The old broadcast tunnel behind the boys’ science wing — was once a secret passage used for pranks, now a Shadow Walker base of sorts. Blue chalk symbols line the walls. Three lanterns cast narrow light.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeNyUZXxY67
Ayo arrives to find Kwame and Otieno waiting.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVj1iskMvwD
Kwame’s expression is razor-sharp. Otieno leans against the pipe wall, arms folded, quieter but far more dangerous.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsNH6WENfWT
“You went off-script,” Kwame said.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT5NrRIFrei
“There’s no script,” Ayo replied. “That’s why we exist.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiKtJj4pDIg
Otieno’s voice was cold: “There’s also no chaos clause. You don’t act alone.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLrkD36vrxf
Ayo stepped forward.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCVnmwsbJP
“You two talk about ‘freedom’ and ‘secrecy’ like a code. But you forgot — secrecy without purpose is just silence. Mercy cracked the Order because they were predictable. Now you’re doing the same thing.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr7oWzjRqoO
Kwame’s lip curled.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡR1zC4ZXgQQ
“You almost got us blacklisted by the girls. You sabotaged the alliance. You played your little card trick for what — a lesson? There are no traitors among us, Ayo. Not anymore.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQIpR3AwhN
Ayo met his eyes — not defiant, but clear.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsjzdhzSpCB
“Then I’m not among you anymore.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFNoZdzmuza
He turned to Otieno.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXVzgpJCATq
“I thought you understood. You used to say walls exist to be rewired, not just crossed.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYqRpl6pBKx
Otieno’s jaw tightened — but he said nothing.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqqwEsjxsKr
“So go ahead,” Ayo said. “Protect your myths. But I won’t be a shadow in someone else’s war.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGTLXIml9S
From his jacket, Ayo pulled his blue-thread badge — a signal band used to mark Shadow Walker channels. He dropped it in the lantern flame.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdbjbMKuDrN
The thread burned silently, curling into smoke.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqgwJO3pk5o
“I'm done pretending we were ever united.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdHyj1oVGtk
He walked out.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdrkHPJS2Yv
The blue thread continued to smoke.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ7YB6ki03H
Kwame didn’t stop him.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfzBvyuEbSs
Otieno did not speak.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI2zAPSbsd9
But something in both of them fractured.
The lamplight in Jabari’s quarters flickered as storm winds from the lake whistled through the shutter vents. Jabari stood at the window, silent, watching distant lightning reflect off the rusting chapel dome.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmGjkYecg2q
Musa entered without knocking.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYMYz86PPpc
He held no files. No coded messages. Just his voice.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZlX2lWPXeg
“Don’t exile him.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4e3sD7YDW3
Jabari didn’t turn. “He almost detonated the alliance.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFHwVGyvJDt
“Because he saw the game Mercy was really playing,” Musa said.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AnKUO33Bt
“Not the ledgers. Not the ciphers. The distraction. The division.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlxIEiNaV7O
Jabari finally turned. “He burned our seal. Broke ranks. Lied with his hands.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBeLP58rGjc
Musa didn’t flinch.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRsDm5lm9i5
“But he never lied with his heart.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuvpjua5xN1
A long silence.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ktHcpzXcx
“He’s not Mercy,” Musa said. “And if we treat him like he is… we become her next chapter.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡILC0VydtJT
Jabari exhaled slowly; hands clasped behind his back.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8cQi2FPyyB
“He’s out. No operations. No keys. No tunnels.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoH90pDRMbZ
Musa nodded.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgEIMLy0OOf
“But?”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCV2GbgYry6
Jabari met his eyes.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi6POoomszi
“He lives. Under watch and probation. If he so much as breathes another signature, he’s done.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZKdiYvNG8
Musa nodded once.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbF4wrfmwGv
“Fair.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5OzX3b6MGS
As he turned to leave, Jabari added, quieter:90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ErWcMCo9A
“He gave you something, didn’t he?”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr59T5CnOpG
Musa paused.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMZNaV5ZuOT
“Only this.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqR0hXenXrx
He handed over a slip of paper — a boiler schematic with one corner circled.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPgnIdR9DWo
“Where the heat doesn’t rise.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSnKOZSamII
Jabari places the note into his pocket looking out at the storm again.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXASkVhrxlZ
“Then that’s where we look next.”
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The hallway behind the science block was nearly empty.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ89vrl201JV
Ayo sat on the edge of the broken stone planter, stripped of codes, no longer marked by Shadow Walker ink. His signal thread was gone. His rank — erased.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsXzq6oSAKY
The others avoided him.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡroCajRVa0Y
But Juma didn’t.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7jCDKdxH2
He approached in silence, his boots wet from the storm.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKeYNvQB8A9
Ayo didn’t look up.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ504jtVjWTX
Juma paused, then — slowly — he knelt.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaZqJfWqFy7
“You were reckless,” Juma said. “But you weren’t wrong.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Y04vORfTV
Ayo blinked. “You hate me.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9PqprgBwRX
“I did,” Juma replied. “But I hate lies more.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEdHfS0G9xV
He reached into his pocket and held up an old thread of white string, the kind used to tie prefect scrolls. A sign of truth in original Order traditions — a forgotten symbol.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqta0TUoM5w
He placed it beside Ayo.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ24vSWCvEI
“Blood isn’t thicker than truth,” Juma said. “And truth deserves a second voice.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvN06XsySdN
Ayo picks up the thread slowly. No words — just a nod.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL9N5aaS0xj
From the rooftops, unseen, Musa watches — saying nothing.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhwXqT7wS2Z
The storm passes over the lake, but its echo remains in the air.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy68y6pfmPd
The old boiler room — recently cleaned, repurposed by Jabari into a clandestine projection hall for high-clearance Order discussions. Just past midnight. The lights are dim. The walls still echo with soot history.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW3iG4IbSfy
Jabari stands alone at the center, surrounded by Musa, Juma, Otieno, and six remaining upper-tier Order heads. He holds up a flash drive, engraved with a winged sandal — the Order’s first cipher mark.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSluZnwOZEt
“Mercy recorded everything,” he says. “Not to preserve truth. But to rewrite it. This is her first confession.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL66gZ3xLki
He plugs it into the projector system.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ZSZRDgjD4
The screen flickers.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt7wX6p1y5j
Mercy appears — younger, sharper, in a classroom-turned-studio. Her voice is calm.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2qa7F9Lk5P
“I didn’t want to lie. But the wall made it easy. They asked me to archive. I edited.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSkYt7EHg36
They asked me to expel. I accused.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKD36ssDqot
The girl from Form 3 never returned. And I never corrected it.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJkymsIzq0y
The ledger isn’t a record.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡde8PUMN0Am
It’s a grave.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfyYIT4JKvQ
And if anyone finds this, I only ask one thing—90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhd3UVGrdHe
Don’t preserve me. Replace me.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRipj0YmlAI
Silence.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHtRgqF9tfv
Otieno is stone-faced. Musa breathes out slowly. One Order head lowers his eyes.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnwWpwZExQL
Juma steps forward. “That was the truth behind the ledger?”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTNipcHTtuq
Jabari nods. “The one we nearly died to protect. We archived a lie.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvkQpGlxNgq
He turns to the room.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKZCM2jTU82
“You don’t get to carry Mercy’s fire and call it light.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXHsxcAgfb4
Jabari draws a circle in chalk on the floor.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYtQqaBRGI
“Step in if you still serve the old Order. Step out if you choose to build what comes next.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWq2h6WJ2VO
The pause is long. Weighty.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyAENWpkL0d
Three members step in. Five steps out.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGaiiGwAvs6
Otieno steps to the edge, then deliberately wipes part of the chalk away.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYDHoz3r6RE
“There shouldn’t be a circle anymore. Only a path.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2nBzSlIc2
Jabari watches the recording fade to static. He unplugs the drive, places it in a red envelope, and hands it to Musa.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ppU2UdaBL
“Send it across the wall. No encryption.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyM3Ltzjsrx
Musa’s eyes widen. “You want Naomi to see it?”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZGftBPtJrp
Jabari’s voice is firm.90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdpnAPkx1Jn
“No. I want everyone to.”90Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWZaQTYewgC
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