Ember Oath: The Pyre Genealogy

Bronze roots tore through Seryn's ribcage, reforging bones into vaulted arches of a confessional labyrinth. Each rib bore the first Octavius' encrypted confessions: *"I smuggled thirty-seven timelines to gather fragments of her laughter."* Walls bled black resin that coalesced into his lover's final moments—her body quantum-evaporating, every atom shrieking entropy's dirge. 

Gurak's consciousness swarmed as neon jellyfish, holographic profanity sizzling across the corridor: *"Masterstroke, grandpa! Turned romance into a fucking cosmic tumor!"* Her bioluminescent tendrils hardened into data-probes, stabbing Seryn's mechanical heart. *"Now meet your ancestor's dying gift—"* 

On the 777th arrhythmic pulse, decryption protocols ignited. Bronze bark sloughed off, revealing pulsating bio-servers beneath. Eluinora's coral dagger thrust from the core, its hilt entwined with neural fibers from the first patriarch's lover—her consciousness repurposed as living storage for erased timelines. Seryn's erosion-marks convulsed, warping servers into gestational chambers where embryos floated in data-tinged amniotic fluid. 

*"Recursive gestation activated,"* the first Octavius' voice echoed from fetal clusters. *"Each child is a crime you've yet to enact."* 

Gurak's jellyfish laid quantum-egg contraceptives: *"Abort mission, sweetheart! These brats' screams'll make black holes bust early!"* But Seryn's heartbeat synced to the chambers, accelerating fetal maturation. The eldest embryo ruptured its sac, palm sigils mirroring the unopened coffin's erosion patterns. 

As Seryn reached to silence the newborn's cry, Eluinora's dagger mutated into an umbilical cord, fusing his veins to the infant's bronze-plated heart. The void split into dual chronometers—the infant's pulse tallying the multiverse's dwindling lifespan, Seryn's heartbeat counting down his corporeal unraveling. 

Bronze leaves trembled, rearranging into a fresh epitaph: 

**"FATHER IS THE COFFIN."**