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But Aris Thorne, now a gray-haired relic on the oversight committee, noticed the silence.

The first Incident was in the Buenos Aires hub. A woman stumbled through the gate, screaming. She looked exactly like Dr. Elena Vance, the lead physicist on duty—same face, same lab coat, same panicked eyes. But this Elena had a gash across her cheek and clutched a child’s hand. The child was crying in a language no one understood. portal globalia

It was the silence of the other worlds. They never pushed back. The lithium planet had no life, the sound-city world had no inhabitants, the painkiller reef had no predators. Every world they accessed was a pristine, empty cornucopia. It was as if the multiverse was a hotel with an infinite number of rooms, and humanity was the only guest. But Aris Thorne, now a gray-haired relic on