8:17 PM. Brisbane Radio Tower, Roof.The wind was screaming.Red light painted everything. The sky, the walls, their faces. Above them the moon wasn’t black anymore. It was red. Like a wound in the sky.Ethan could feel it in his chest. A drumbeat that wasn’t his.In front of him, 3 people. The woman with knives. She twirled two curved blades, smiling like this was a game. The man with the staff. Tall. Bald. His staff was black wood and it pulsed with the same red light as the moon. And the old man with no eyes. Bandages over his sockets. But he turned his head like he could see them perfectly.Between them, on a stone pedestal, the Red Shard. It was alive. It grew an inch every few seconds. Veins of light crawled up it and into the sky.Lily was behind Ethan. Her hand on his back. Bro..."I got you." Ethan didn’t look back. "Stay behind me."The old man tilted his head. "You smell like Melbourne. Like broken glass and failure."The woman laughed. "And blood. Lots of blood."The
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