[File Recovered from Personal Drive | Timestamped: One day before the Coil fell]
Message marked: "To Aarav — If I don't make it."
Hey, Axis.
I know you probably hate being called that, but I always figured it fit you — not because of prophecy or power or spiral nonsense.
Just because everything changes when you walk into a room.
Like you spin gravity.
There's something I never told you.
Not because I didn't trust you.
Because I didn't trust myself.
My name isn't Kabir. Not originally.
I was born Kabir Velin.
Yes. That Velin.
Cassian Velin's bastard son.
The Founder.
He left before I could remember him.
Not just the Order — everything.
One day he walked into the Spiral Below and didn't walk back out.
The official story was that he vanished trying to unlock the origin of the Helix.
But I found a letter once — buried in a corrupted archive inside the Helix's audio vault.
It was to me.
"The spiral doesn't end in fire. It ends in choice."
I didn't join the Order. I was born into its shadow.
I saw what they did to people like my mother — how they erased her.
How they rebranded her "Unstable Asset 42-C."
So I made a plan.
Wait. Learn. Smile.
Make friends.
And when I met you — I'll be honest, I thought you were just another recruit.
But then you looked at this whole place like it owed you answers.
And I knew.
You were the question they were afraid to ask.
So I stayed close.
Not because I believed in destiny.
Because I believed in you.
If this is being read, I probably didn't make it out of the Coil.
And that's okay.
Some of us weren't meant to survive the spiral.
Some of us were just meant to light it on fire so others could escape.
Keep moving.
Don't trust your reflection.
If you find my father's final journal — don't read it alone.
And Aarav?
If the spiral ever makes you forget who you are,
remember this:
You were always more than what they designed.
You were the only one who ever made me believe we could be more than broken.
Goodbye, brother.
Keep the fire burning.
— K
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