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The Lowest Point

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Chapter 64

The world did not end with a bang or a whimper; it ended with the sound of grinding metal and the smell of souring wine.

I felt the crate tilt sharply, the weight of my body shifting violently against the cedar walls one last time. For a heartbeat, I was weightless, a suspended ghost in a box of dying flowers. Then came the fall.

It wasn't a long drop, but the impact was transformative. The wood splintered upon hitting the reinforced steel of the industrial waste compactor, the str
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