Blood ,Fire and Frost
The Axis coils tight, vibrating against my ribs, furious at being restrained from protecting me the way it knows how.
“I am choosing,” I say through clenched teeth, voice shaking, “not to respond.”
The telemetry flattens.
Dead still.
The chamber goes silent.
I sag against Rowan, every muscle trembling.
“This,” I whisper, “is what consent looks like when power is real.”
Someone cuts the feed.
Too late.
Enemy POV:
The spike failed.
She didn’t flare.
She didn’t collapse.
She internalized.
That was not in the model.
Public response is fracturing unpredictably. Sympathy metrics rising. Coalition credibility dropping.
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