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ASHES AND AFTERMATH
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2026-02-28 15:19:49The explosion had thrown us twenty feet apart.
I came to with my ears ringing, vision blurred, and the taste of copper flooding my mouth. Smoke. Fire. The acrid stench of chemicals and burning metal."Dante." My voice came out strangled. "Dante!"A groan. To my left. Movement through the haze.He was alive. Bleeding from a gash above his eyebrow, suit torn, but alive."Here." He moved forward and His hand found mine. He Squeezed
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