They’re trying to kill the Leviathan, Kade projects, his mental voice grim. If they boil the ocean, the Leviathan dies. The biological network crashes. The global digital network crashes. The Architects win.
Then we have to process the paradox loop before they boil the ocean, I project back, my mental voice fierce, unyielding. Morgan, initiate the global link. Link the global network to the Leviathan.
Initiating the link, Morgan says, her voice tight. The global network is connected to the Leviathan. The Leviathan is accepting the load.
I close my eyes. I don't use magic. I don't use genesis energy. I just reach out with my mind, connecting directly to the physical mass of the Leviathan through the telluric current.
The reaction is instantaneous.
It is not the warm, rhythmic pulse of
