Rose’s POVI didn’t scream at first.It was strange…You’d think falling into darkness like that—like the ground itself had just given up on you would pull a scream right out of your lungs.But mine didn’t come.Not immediately.Because for a second…It didn’t feel like falling.It felt like…Being pulled.Like something below had been waiting—patiently, quietly and the moment the crack opened, it just… reached up and took me.Then it hit me.The speed.The drop.The nothingness around me.And my voice finally broke free.“—AHH—!”The sound tore out of me, raw, messy, not even fully formed. My hands reached out instinctively, grabbing at nothing, air rushing past my fingers like it was mocking me.There was no ground.No walls.No end.Just darkness.Endless, swallowing darkness.My heart slammed violently against my chestNo.Not just mine.That second heartbeat was there too.Louder now.Too loud.Like it was excited.“Stop—!” I gasped, choking on my own breath. “Stop reacting like
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