Bad Medicine
“Jax… it’s learning faster. Faster than we can counter.”
He looked at me, eyes blazing. “Then we don’t give it time. We collapse the core now.”
We plunged our combined will into the core. Threads of gold and amber entwined, sparking, fracturing, and reforming. The mirrored hybrid shrieked in mental resonance, its reflection flickering, losing coherence.
“Almost… there…” Jax gasped.
The core pulsed violently, responding to our interference. For a heartbeat, the hybrid was frozen, fragmented into shards of amber-gold light. We were winning—no, we were close to winning.
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