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HildaThe bench was warm under my legs.I sat there watching the reeds sway, listening to them whisper against each other in the breeze. The air moved easy here, nothing heavy about it. No rot, no blood, no stink of fear or death. Just grass and sun and the distant sound of water I couldn't see but
Flashback to earlier that morning - the hunt decisionLeviHours ago, when the sun had barely started filtering through the canopy, we'd stopped at a stream.Ava had been half-carrying Falco for the past two miles, his arm slung over her shoulders, her body taking most of his weight. Every time I lo
LeviThree hours through rough terrain while Ava scouted ahead. Three hours of his weight pressing down on my damaged ribs, his breath on my neck, his arms loose around my shoulders like dead weight.Except they weren't dead weight. I'd felt the strength in them. Felt how easily he held on, how he a
LeviThe asshole couldn't even feed himself.I sat on a fallen log twenty feet away, pretending to check my boots for damage while I watched Ava spoon soup into Falco's mouth like he was a toddler. She'd made it from some roots she'd found and water from a stream, heated over a small fire we'd riske
EvelynThe truck looked like someone had used it for target practice.Robin's security guys had pulled a body out—no, not a body, he was still moving—and laid him on the gravel. The driver's door hung open, engine ticking. There was a hole through the windshield right where someone's head would be i







