Mia’s POVThe underwater base had settled into something resembling normalcy, though "normal" for us meant twenty-three children learning, growing, and occasionally unlocking restricted systems with their emerging abilities. Theo and Elias, thirteen now, led the older group in strategy simulations that looked suspiciously like real tactical planning. Seraphina and Aurora, eleven, had begun questioning the historical archives we provided, piecing together fragments of the bloodline war we had tried to soften for them. Hope, six years old, moved through the corridors with an eerie grace, her enhancements fully awake. The younger ones brought pure chaos and joy.I found Hope in the quiet archive chamber late one afternoon, surrounded by glowing holographic displays. She was staring at a map of hidden ocean vaults, small fingers tracing coordinates that should have been classified.“Mom,” she said without turning around, her voice calm and far too mature. “There are more of us. Twenty mor
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