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Chapter 22: Hospitalized

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The sirens had faded into the night, their wail unraveling into the black horizon like the tail end of a funeral hymn. The last traces of flashing light blinked out, leaving behind the kind of silence that didn’t feel empty, but raw as though the air itself was still ringing from everything it had just witnessed.

Smoke thinned reluctantly in the cold air, smearing in ghostly trails over the jagged fence line. Its taste clung to the back of the throat acrid rubber, scorched metal, and the faint metallic tang of blood. It was the kind of air that forced you to breathe shallow, each inhaling a reminder that the fight had been close. Too close.

The shadows…. not shadows in the poetic sense, but the kind born of flesh, training, and precision moved with a quiet finality. They were Elias’s people, Rane’s too, a small army of operatives who could dismantle an entire warzone without leaving a footprint. They broke their gear without a word, snapping buckles, coiling ropes, flicking off comms.
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