Japhet’s POVI don’t slow down.I can’t.Every second stretches too long, every corridor feels endless, every turn feels like it’s taking me further away instead of closer, and the more I move, the more something inside me tightens, something sharp and suffocating that I don’t recognize as fear at first, because fear has never been something I allowed myself to feel, never something I gave space to exist, but this—This is different.This isn’t fear for myself. This is something far worse.“Clear the sector.”My voice cuts through the comms, low and controlled, but there’s an edge to it now, something unstable, something that leaks through no matter how tightly I hold it back, and I hear the shift in their responses, the way they move faster, sharper, because they feel it too.“Boss, we found movement ahead.”“I’m coming.”The words leave me before the message fully settles, and I push forward, past the men, past the barriers, past anything that tries to slow me down, because there is
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