The word hung in the air, heavier than the basalt pillars holding up the sky."Run."Leo didn't move. He couldn't.His small, gold-scarred fingers were still pressed against the jagged fissure on my stone lips, catching the lingering warmth of the dark radiance I had just exhaled.The golden light in his eyes didn't flare; it stilled, becoming a hard, reflective surface that mirrored my unblinking quartz gaze. He looked at the crack in my face, waiting for the stone to finish its sentence, waiting for the Mother to return from the mountain.But the silence that followed was absolute. The geothermic groan of the crust died in the walls, and the high-frequency whine of the lunar beam above the dome reached a pitch that made the mercury in the floor-channels vibrate with a visible, violent tremor."Mommy?"Leo whispered. His voice was a dry rasp, stripped of its sovereign weight. He leaned closer, his forehead resting against my petrifie
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