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Even alone, she could cause enough ruckus to make it seem like there was a group of people around. And so, Wilson had never found the west wing to be deserted. He'd even been scornful of Ivory for being so noisy. But now that she was missing, the place became eerily silent—too silent for comfort. He had always preferred the quiet. So why did the silence now make him feel uneasy? "Ivory, is this some dumb prank?" Wilson asked coldly. "Come out! I don't have time for these games!" Still, no one answered him. However, he heard the tinkling of wind chimes from outside. He ran out and looked up at the peach blossom tree to find the things that Ivory had once held dear dangling from the branches.

Where? He looked at the single word and felt something in his chest that was not quite relief because relief required the thing to be over and it was far from over, but something adjacent to it, the specific quality of a door opening when you had been standing in front of it long enough to have stopped being certain it would. He typed: Somewhere neutral. Not Dess's apartment. Somewhere you feel like yourself. A longer pause this time. Then: The facility. Riverside Racing. One hour.

JORDAN I try to think fast—but I can’t. Nothing comes. It’s too much, all of it. My mind won’t process a single coherent thought. I have no idea what to do. Stumbling toward the floor, I ignore the searing ache in my core and grab one of the spilled pills near the sink. My fingers tremble so badly I nearly drop it again. Doesn’t matter. I shove it toward my mouth, my entire body screaming for relief…for silence…for control.

I had no sense of direction. Even after five years on Avenmore Island, I still could not tell north from south. Isaac Norwood always set up my GPS ahead of time. He said he would guide me for the rest of my life. On our wedding day, the bridal car reached Summit Pass Road when he suddenly said the bouquet had been left in the trunk. The moment I stepped out, the car door clicked shut behind me and locked. I saw the driver glance at Isaac through the rearview mirror, like he had known all along. The next second, the motorcade disappeared into the fog. Isaac sent me a voice message. "Walk 999 steps forward and you'll hit a fork in the road. Sabrina says you can't even find the ceremony hal

I groan in pain as the pain jolts through my head. “Drake! Drake! Can you hear me? Drake!!” Matthew’s frantic voice sounds distant and far and I could barely hear him. But I knew he was close, I know he is here. I know he is standing right beside me, but he was fading from my vision fast. It was in this very moment I knew, if I did not get accustomed to this, I would never have the solution. So now I know. This is my life now.

“Alex, you know about these? I didn’t even recognize them the first time.” Alex nodded. “Too bad it’s here in Japan.” ‘If this were America, I would’ve considered building a house nearby so we could move in.’ ‘This place is ideal for both Mom and Maya’s training.’ However, since he couldn’t take the stones either, he decided not to think any further. Martiny said, “We would be within the range of the formation circle further ahead. Nora and the others are currently stuck in there, so they probably won’t be getting out within the next hour.”

Massimo's POV “This is exactly where the signal stops. I’m…I’m trying to get something else, but nothing.” Tessa’s voice cracked with frustration. We were in the middle of nowhere. The place the signal had last pinged was an empty stretch of industrial road with nothing but broken streetlights and abandoned warehouses. No sign of Isabella. No sign of anyone. The silence out here felt heavier than any city night, pressing in from every side. Even the wind seemed to hold its breath.

Right when every team's attention was on their own situation. I looked at Colt. The relief from thirty seconds ago was already gone. "Location four," I said into the earpiece. "Who is the closest team to that address?" A pause. "Nobody," Mouse said quietly. "Every team is locked on their own location. Location four is on the north side. The closest available person is—" He stopped. "Mouse."

Tessa kept refreshing my results page, muttering to herself the whole time. "No way. This must be a system glitch!" The principal and a few reporters came over, staring straight at my score screen. My score was blank. Below it was a line in bold: "Total score: You are ranked in the top 50. Please check back on the 27th for more details." Everyone in the room was stunned. Even the comments section froze for several seconds before it exploded again.

“Of course! However, won’t it be dangerous to take shortcuts? Luckily, the crack this time is not that powerful. We'd all die here if we ran into a more powerful one!” “It’s not that easy to kill all of us. Plus, it’s not that easy to run into the most powerful crack. We’re just unlucky to have run into one today.” “You said you wanted to take the shortcut. So what should we do now? Where are we? How far is this place from the Milky Way? Where should we go?” “How the hell would I know?” “You…” “Alright, stop arguing! Let me check with the secret technique,” another person said. Then, the two stopped talking.