The crack was not a small crack.It was a single, clean line that ran from the top of the glass tank to the bottom, right under Serena's palm. The glass did not shatter outward. It shivered. It breathed.And then blue liquid poured out of it onto the concrete floor, steaming in the minus forty air."Back! Everyone back!" Julian shouted, pulling Serena away from the tank by her waist, his gun now fully out, pointed at the glass.Sol Prime was inside, on his back, coughing, choking, his first real breaths of air tearing at lungs that had only ever breathed blue liquid. He was naked, skin pale, muscles shaking, the sun-shaped scar on his chest glowing red under the white spotlight.Victoria fell to her knees, cuffed hands reaching toward the tank."Sol Prime! My sun! Breathe! Breathe for Mama!"Adam stepped forward, blanket falling off his shoulders, his own chest heaving. He stared at the boy who had his eyes, his nose, Elena's mouth."My son," he whispered. "Oh God, Elena, what did she
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