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Chapter 13: The Night Of Ash
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2026-02-06 11:54:12
Sloane Sterling We’re going back to the night that changed everything. For five years, we've seen the rejection through Elena's eyes... but what was Xander thinking? Prepare for some heartbreak, everyone. Did he really have a choice, or was he just a coward? Let me know if this changes how you feel about him! — Sloane Sterling
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Xander walked into the western staging area still coughing and a medic from Aris's team intercepted him at the gate with a look that said clinic, now, no arguing."Later," he said."Your lungs—""Later," he said again, and kept walking toward the armor racks Kincaid had set up, because six miles was shrinking and a sore throat wasn't going to be the thing that mattered in twenty minutes.He stripped off the ruined chest plate. The sulfur had eaten through two of the buckle seams and warped the surface enough that it wouldn't sit flush anymore. Kincaid's quartermaster had spare plates sized close enough, and Xander got into one while Kincaid briefed him on what Sarah's relay had already confirmed."Henderson's armor caught the convoys in the open ground," Kincaid said. "Standard tracked corvettes, thermal turrets. They're not trying to capture anyone. They're enforcing the embargo the way the Presidium meant it to be enforced." He handed Xander a fresh blade. "Examples. For anyone else
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Commander Vane didn't say anything theatrical.He looked at Xander across thirty feet of smoke-choked ravine, assessed him the way a man assessed a problem he'd solved before, and gave a single hand signal. His ten operatives moved at once — hardwired thermal blades drawn, the static-resistant gear that meant frequency masking wasn't going to save Xander twice."Mask's gone," Xander said, mostly to himself, and dropped the modulation entirely.He let the full-expression frequency run loud instead. Not hiding anymore — announcing. The roar of it hit the limestone walls and came back distorted, and he felt it land in his own inner ear too, which was the cost of using it this close and this raw.The floor was already failing. He used that.He didn't try to hold ground against ten armed operatives. Ground wasn't his to hold — it was actively dying underneath everyone's boots, venting pockets of superheated gas through hairline cracks that widened every few seconds. So instead of defense h
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The incendiaries hit the middle valley pass at 2:15 AM with a sound that wasn't an explosion.Xander felt it through the ravine floor — not the sharp percussion of surface ordnance, something deeper and more sustained, the specific signature of a thermal charge punching through sedimentary layers to reach what was beneath them. The ground responded a few seconds later. Fissures in the limestone began venting smoke, yellow-tinged, the unmistakable smell of sulfur thickening on top of the dampening agent's chemical stink."Coal seam's lit," Silas said, through the comm. His voice had the flat urgency of someone delivering the worst possible confirmation as fast as he could. "Surface radar's pixelating from the heat already. I make it twenty minutes before the air in those lower paths isn't air anymore.""Twenty minutes," Xander repeated, mostly so Vance could hear it."Maybe less," Silas said.Vance was already dividing the scouts. "Three teams," he said. "I'll take the second junction.
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