Chapter 47:
The Architect Makes Nanno Human
Nanno sat on the edge of existence, her form flickering like a mirage, as if resisting the very idea of limitation. She was unbound, untethered—a force, not a being.
But The Architect had decided.
“Enough.”
His voice was not a command, but a law. A quiet inevitability woven into the very fabric of reality.
Nanno felt it first as a weight in her chest. A thump. Then another. A heartbeat. Her eyes, once pools of infinite knowing, now flickered with something unfamiliar—doubt.
Her fingers curled inward, trembling. Flesh.
Her body, once formless, now bound by limits. Time pressed against her like an unseen force. Hunger. Fatigue. Pain. Mortality.
Her lips parted, breath hitching in her throat. “What… have you done?”
The Architect stood before her, watching. His expression was unreadable, his presence as vast and overwhelming as ever. But his answer was simple.
“I gave you what you always lacked.”
Nanno staggered forward, her steps uneven. She had judged humanity, toyed with them, punished them for their sins. But she had never—not once—been one of them.
Now, she was.
For the first time, she could truly suffer. For the first time, she could truly change.
And that was The Architect’s true power.
Not destruction.
Not conquest.
But reinvention.
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