Bloodscript: Survival Game of the Reborn
lockbook cradled in his lap, chest heaving, eyes wild.
Ink—real, physical, sticky ink—spattered the floor, our clothes, the ceiling. It dripped from my hair, from Corvin’s knuckles, from Jax’s pipe.
For a moment, no one spoke.
Our lungs tried to remember what recycled air was.
Then the intercom, ever punctual, came to life.
\[ROUND FIVE COMPLETE.\]
The words blinked over the windshield, calm and tidy, as if we hadn’t just ripped a hole in its librarian and crawled through its spine.