STEP BROTHER DEAREST
Every building’s windows shattered in unison, shards raining like knives.
We scattered—Madison pulling Vera into the cover of a fractured overhang, Ian darting between collapsing shadows, Stepbrother bending probability just enough to shift the shards’ trajectories. I rolled beneath a broken column, puppet-strings lashing outward to snag shards midair and knot them together into harmless clusters.
When the storm ended, silence fell again—except for the hum beneath our feet, louder now, faster.
The city wasn’t punishing us. It was… enjoying it.
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We regrouped in what used to be a familiar intersection—four streets meeting at a cracked traffic light. But instead of asphalt, the ground was gl