Bound by broken pieces
“Hold on. Hold everything. It ends on my terms.”
The creature—or whatever it was—struck suddenly, faster than the eye could track, knocking men aside with impossible force. Trees splintered, debris flew, and the forest erupted into a maelstrom of chaos, fire, smoke, and screaming metal. Kenneth moved with terrifying fluidity, shielding me, firing, pivoting, moving through the violence with a precision that was almost impossible to comprehend. I followed, clinging to him, feeling the raw, intoxicating pulse of life and death that tethered us together, the magnetic force of his presence anchoring me even as the world collapsed around us.
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