The storm came without warning.One moment, the sky above the ruined city had been a dull, lifeless gray—like ash smeared across a dying world. The next, thunder cracked open the heavens, splitting the silence into jagged fragments. Rain followed in violent sheets, hammering against broken concrete, shattered glass, and the skeletal remains of buildings long abandoned.Below it all, beneath the drowned bones of civilization, they hid.The basement was half-flooded, the water rising just above their ankles, dark and murky with rust, oil, and the slow rot of everything that had been left behind. The air smelled metallic thick with decays and every breath tasted like blood and rain.Samuel leaned against the cold wall, his chest rising and falling unevenly. His body trembled, not from the chill, but from the strain of existence itself. Sharing a body, a soul, a mind—it was never meant to last this long. It was never meant to work. And yet, here they were alive Barely.Across from him, Ad
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