CHUG… CHUG…The antiquated train groaned as it thundered through the mountain tunnel, the roar of the wind a desperate, harrowing shriek in the metal carriage.Skylar "Skye" Vance snapped her eyes open. Her vision was instantly blinded by a hostile flash of light. The ceaseless, jarring rattle and grinding friction of the train wheels beneath her sent a wave of agonizing vertigo through her system, creating a moment of terrifying, disorienting unreality.The deep. Before the darkness, she remembered the abyssal cold, the catastrophic, pressure-cooked explosion deep beneath the ocean, the water turning into a suffocating shroud of fire, and her body—the peak-performance instrument of a master assassin—dissolving in the chaos. How, then, had she found herself here, in this suffocating, crude space?“Hsss…”She raised a small hand, the action stiff and unfamiliar, to rub her throbbing forehead. The touch brought her to a dead, sickening halt. Ignoring the dizzying haze, she stared at her
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