Chapter 165 - CLARIFICATION

Rama woke in Coalition secondary headquarters medical facility three days after Mumbai's dual-fracture sealing and mutual sacrifice that had killed both Regressors multiple times while saving twenty-two million displaced civilians. His body felt wrong in ways that went beyond normal post-mission exhaustion. This was cellular damage from corruption exposure at critical health levels, from dying and being restored repeatedly through Coalition Eternal protocols stressed beyond design specifications, from pushing Dual Regression Resonance into environmental warfare amplification that had never been tested under actual combat conditions.