Bloodscript: Survival Game of the Reborn
it said, words booming out over the chorus of Authors, over the hum in the floor, over Selene’s gritted‑teeth effort, “YOU DESTROY YOUR OWN CHANCE AT LIFE.”
The hospital monitor on the screen stuttered.
For a heartbeat, the flat line of no signal replaced the soft hills of my pulse.
The image of me in the bed flickered, edges going translucent.
I felt a tide pulling at my chest, cold and insistent, as if the misty edges of my rebirth were clawing at me, begging me to step back. Like some part of me was tethered to that hospital bed, and the tether was fraying.
“YOU CUT YOURSELF OFF,” it said. “NO SYSTEM = NO RETURN PATH. NO GAME = NO REBIRTH. YOU WILL EVAPORATE. THIS VERSION OF YOU WILL NEVE