Novel & Cerita And The Walls Kept Tumbling Down

He pushed me into the car, and quickly started driving. - Where are we going? - Home. - Because? -You will see. I didn't say anything as Adrian sped towards our building. When we got to my apartment, my eyes widened. Everything was destroyed, and there were big bold letters on the floor, and a dead rabbit beside them. HUMPTY DUMPTY* SAT ON A WALL, HUMPTY DUMPTY FELL TO THE HARD FLOOR. AND NOT ALL THE KING'S MEN AND HORSES THEY MANAGED TO PUT IT BACK AGAIN.

The moment he did, the ground beneath us began to shake. “We need to move,” I said urgently. The ruins began to collapse around us as we ran, the sound of crumbling stone echoing in our ears. We navigated the twisting corridors as quickly as we could, the glowing symbols on the walls flickering and fading. “Almost there!” I shouted, spotting the exit up ahead. We burst out into the open air just as the ruins caved in completely, a cloud of dust rising into the sky. “That was too close,” Aaron said, catching his breath.

KEENA Tingles and electricity spread across my skin and I know that I am in the arms of my mate. My eyes flutter open and I see Ward staring down at me with a concerned look on his face. “None of these doors lead to the outside,” I hear someone yell from behind Ward. “Perhaps we need to go to another level.” “There isn’t any time,” Ward yells over his shoulder. “This place is going to fall down around us.” I lift my head up and see the walls around us cracking. The sunlight is beginning to peak through the cracks that are forming in the walls.

Kael pushed himself up again painfully and blood ran from his mouth now but he still stepped toward me, toward us, always toward me and my chest ached watching both of them. Both bleeding, both fighting and both refusing to leave me. The power inside me rose again suddenly and it was bigger than before and the ground shook violently beneath my feet. The walls cracked wider and a massive roar echoed through the ruins. Then… The ceiling began collapsing above us.

The entire chamber fell into a deep silence for some moments and I could feel the tension in the air slowly rise. I turned to Alexander who also had a shocked expression etched on his face. I was about speaking to him when the trembling suddenly returned. The cracks grew and portions of the walls and ceilings began falling, crushing everyone who was unfortunate to be under them. "Shit," Alexander cursed under his breath.

The phone rang. The walls cracked, rips running floor to ceiling. He thought of Mom with her bleeding scabs. How they’d crack and weep red. The floor jumped beneath his feet. He wanted to sit, but was afraid he’d tear and split and weep, too. The ceiling was buckling and breaking. Dropping tiles and dust. Dangerous small splinters that would stab if he stepped wrong. The flesh of this apartment, the skin, it was ripping apart. Like his fuckin’ skin and hers at the end before she fell in the dirt and died. And the knocking, it wouldn’t stop.

Definitely damaged. That didn’t matter. We could worry about that later once Amber was safe and back home with me and our daughter where she belonged. Eden struck again. Concrete cracked further, splintering under the repeated assault. Dust burst outward in thick clouds, coating the air and our lungs. A third blow sent a jagged section collapsing inward with a deafening crash. The wall gave way. Not gracefully or cleanly. It shattered. Chunks of concrete fell at our feet, revealing darkness behind what had seemed solid moments ago. We climbed over the rubble, boots crunching over debris, and stepped into the hidden space beyond.

Marcus urged, ushering everyone ahead of him, glancing back constantly to make sure no one fell behind. We finally burst out into open air, the compound's eastern exit depositing us into a rocky clearing just as another violent tremor shook the ground beneath our feet. I turned back in time to watch the main structure begin to crumble in earnest, sections of wall folding inward as the foundation gave way entirely, a century of secrets and suffering swallowed in a matter of seconds beneath a rising wall of dust. "Everyone's out," Isolde said, counting heads frantically, her voice climbing with each name. "Elena, Lucien, Marcus, Alaric, Mireille, Edric, Evelyn, Chloe. And."

It was something like a puzzle where you had to piece patterns together. After a few tries, it finally worked out, and Lucien stepped back. “Be careful.” He said, and I stumbled over a twig. Out of the blue, a large wall covered in a tangle of vines, and thorns, seemed to drop from the sky in front of us. I screamed as we fell to the floor. The wall was very tall, and wide, and it felt like the ground shook. My heart was beating like crazy, and we kept on looking at the wall.

“We turned it on as soon as we opened the door.” The ceiling cracked. A piece of stone fell from the far corner and clattered on to the floor in a puff of dust. "Run," I said. We ran. The corridors were disintegrating around us. Dust and debris, and the sound of the mountain deciding it was done holding this place together. There were detachments that hadn’t made it to the vault yet, fleeing beside us, ranks and command structure completely obliterated when all you faced was something that didn’t give a fuck who you were loyal to. Ryker limped on a leg that had no business running, Kent's arm under his shoulder.