The Man Who Married My Name
Lucien threw us forward, launching us through the open grate and out into the freezing, empty air.
The fall was a terrifying, breathless plunge into absolute nothingness. The wind screamed in my ears, tearing the oxygen directly from my lungs as we plummeted toward the roaring, icy rapids of the alpine river five hundred feet below.
But the sheer terror of the freefall was instantly eclipsed by a catastrophic failure inside my own body.
The immense physical stress of the jump, combined with the intentional pressure I had applied to the leaking hardware, finally pushed the neural implant completely past its breaking point.