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Chapter 37: Activated

Author: Comet
last update publish date: 2026-03-30 08:17:32

Falling didn’t feel like air.

It felt like a mouth.

The ravine opened its stone jaws and swallowed Kiera whole. Wind punched the breath from her lungs; rock faces rushed past as streaks of wet, mineral black. The roar of the river rose from below like a crowd cheering for gravity.

Her mind didn’t scream.

It shattered.

Ronan—

The name sparked down the thread between them and burned out immediately under the drag of panic.

The world became pieces.

Edges and noise.

Her own pulse.

The white fi
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