Bloodscript: Survival Game of the Reborn
For each win, there was a kickback: tiny shards of code exploding outward like shrapnel, flashes of color, and sound that made my teeth buzz.
Corvin moved with the pulses, absorbing the worst of the backlash.
His palm, still pressed against CONSENT, bled now—dark fluid dripping from between his fingers and evaporating into code before it could hit anything solid. The hand on his sword was slick with it, grip unshaken.
He was half-system, half-man, and right now, all of that was being used to keep the Game’s counterattacks from ripping us apart.