The Phoenix Before Doomsday
"I won't."
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We leave at dawn.
The team is small—just me, Damon, Helena, Zara, and Julian. Five people against an army. Against an ancient threat. Against everything.
It's not enough.
It has to be enough.
The journey to Westbridge takes a day. The landscape is a wasteland—cracked roads, crumbling buildings, the skeletons of cars rusting in the sun. The sky is dark, heavy with clouds that never seem to break.
And everywhere, there are bodies.