Blood on the Asphalt biker
Dax replied, his voice a grim frequency in my helmet.
We hit the open road, the city lights fading into a blur of neon streaks. The ride back to Coldwater was a six-hour gauntlet through the blackest part of the night. We bypassed the major tolls, sticking to the old industrial arteries where the shadows were deep and the law was thin. Tank and Reaper held our flanks, their bikes forming a tight protective diamond around the Norton.
But as the sun began to bleed over the horizon, painting the sky in bruised shades of purple, the vibration in the road changed. It wasn't the steady hum of a pack. It was a rhythmic, mechanical throb that felt too perfect, too synchronized.