Echoes of the Fractured Bond
The amber held through sheer contact and will, but the cost was written in every trembling muscle.
“I need you,” he said, voice rough. “The signal is stronger than the last one. If it takes me fully here the bond may not be enough to pull me back on its own.”
There was no clean space free of the grid’s influence, no time, no safety. But the pattern of our survival had already been carved into every corridor and platform above. I rose on my toes in the cold water and kissed him with everything still left in my will, memory, the fierce attachment that had grown in blood and programming, the love I had already spoken once and that still sat between us, living in every desperate claim even if th
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