The Watchmaker's Will"
"The hunters are deploying a localized chronal dampening field! It's choking the workshop's bandwidth! If they tighten the perimeter, the signal drops to zero and the world never sees the truth!"
Through the gaps in the rotting workbench, Anaya watched the three black-suited assassins advance. Their frame-skipping movements made them look like terrifying ghosts, appearing five feet closer with every blink of an eye. The crimson, multi-eyed visors on their helmets scanned the room with cold, predatory efficiency. They weren't here to capture; they were here to excise the anomaly.
"Kabir, your gun," Anaya whispered, noticing the dull golden light starting to seep through the seams of his heavy