Chapter 66: Proof of Life

The day begins with a detail that should be ordinary and refuses to remain that way.

Miles has been receiving different notes that always end with June saving him. The revelation changes the meaning of every earlier victory.

The evidence survives, but reaching it requires a choice that exposes the group to a new enemy.

June Carter keeps the larger goal in view: break the prediction cycle before June's name appears. The immediate problem is smaller, sharper, and impossible to postpone.

They disagree without leaving. For both of them, that becomes a more intimate choice than agreement.

June Carter must choose between the safe version of the truth and the costly one that can still save others.

The recurring signs of lockers, charcoal sketches, train echoes return with a different meaning, linking this choice to what came before.

A betrayal closes the obvious escape and leaves only the forbidden route.