Aurora stepped out of the Relic Gate and into the biting cold of the night air and the blinding glare of the floodlights.The collapse behind them was almost gentle—a haunting contrast to the violence they had come to expect. There was no bone-shaking shockwave, no tearing pressure. Just a quiet, pale light folding inward upon itself until the gate was simply gone, leaving only the KAMB perimeter, the dark stretch of road beyond it, and the lingering, heavy feeling that they had just walked out of somewhere much older than anything else in the modern world.For a long second, nobody moved.Then Mira bent forward, hands braced on her knees, and let out a breath that seemed to carry the weight of the last several hours. "Okay," she said, her voice a ragged whisper. "That was significantly less offensive than the last one."Lucien rolled one shoulder, the movement stiff, and glanced back at the empty space where the distortion had been. "That's because nothing in there tried to evolve."
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