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The cabin groaned once more—a final, settling protest—and then, it held. We had won, but it wasn't a victory in the way I used to understand the word. We hadn't destroyed an opponent. We had simply negotiated a temporary peace with the elements. I looked at my hands. They were raw, shaking, and covered in ice, but they were strong. I had spent years in the city trying to avoid the "grit" of life, trying to smooth out every edge, to insulate myself from the unpredictable, messy reality of the world. Now, I saw that the grit was the point. The struggle wasn't a failure of the system; it was the mechanism of existence itself.

He stopped, closed his eyes and slowly drew in air, and had them out when his lungs had it maximum capacity at hand. He first turned to Devon, and deadpanned, then he made another turn the opposite way, and walked to the gym's exit. He left the gym, and for some reason, Devon was not entirely surprised. Many were stunned. Mr Grundy had the "I told you so" look swimming all around his face... He couldn't hide it. Devon simply crash landed a sigh, and thought of how stupid he must have made Adrian feel for imposing on his person with such a request.

Shakily, she said, "W-What now, Jackie? Is it true? Your company's bankrupt?" Jackie flung her hand away like it was a disease. His eyes were filled with hostility. "Now you panic? You just had to show your face and embarrass yourself! This wouldn't have happened if you had just stayed put!" The roar made Yvonne shiver, and tears welled in her eyes, but she noticed the crowd's scorn for her. She held her tears in. A moment ago, she was the picture of elegance, but now she was panicking and looked nothing like a noble lady.

Her body was already getting tired, but she could not afford to stop running now. She kept running down the quiet street, and just when she thought of slowing down to catch her breath, she missed her steps and fell, rolling down the slope. She grunted in pain as she looked at her bruised hands and legs. Her whole body was now very dirty, and she looked like she was just fished out of the dirt. She pulled her weak body up and started raining insults on Fred for putting her in this situation for something so trivial as tears pricked down her face.

Fist clenched, breath drawn deep, I channeled strength into my core. My fist collided with the tree's trunk. Crack! Two fissures erupted from the point of impact, racing outward, splitting the trunk in two. Shock painted their faces. The tree's crown lurched, crashing down with a 'whoosh!' The earth trembled, leaves took flight. I shook out my hands and faced them squarely. "Had I actually pushed her, she'd be in the hospital right now." Alice's tears ceased, her complexion ghostly. Victoria's rage gave way to terror, her grip on Alice's arm so fierce that her nails could have drawn blood.

The New Wild was a magnificent draft, but it was a draft written in the northern hemisphere, where the sun was a distant, golden coin that spent less time on the horizon every day. The bread-trees had fully transitioned now. Their gnarled branches no longer dropped small loaves into the grass; they produced a hard, bitter nut that had to be soaked in mountain water for three days to leach out the acid before it could be ground into a coarse meal. The survivors were learning the true meaning of Grit. It wasn't a metaphor for survival; it was the sand in the flour that wore down your teeth while you ate.

This is the last one. “Calm down. This isn’t exactly as easy as grocery shopping,” Grizz scoffs as he rolls his eyes- I mean his eye- at me. He told Yaya and me the story about how his former Alpha sliced out his eye during a fight. The same Alpha who held me and Yaya hostage, and is still keeping my sister locked in a dirty cell. Grizz slicks back his black hair, the color of freshly spilled ink. I can’t help but dart my eyes to his eye patch. It makes the iciness of his remaining eye more prominent. “How long until you can finish this batch?” he asks as he plops down on the worn-out, reddish-orange chair in the corner. A small cloud of dirt and dust floats away when he does.

"Julian, oh my god, your hand. Your wrist." "Keep... moving," Julian rasped, his voice a strangled, breathless whisper. His eyes were closed, his jaw locked so tight she could hear his teeth grinding. "The... the surge is dampening. We must... clear the shaft." "You can't climb with one hand," she pleaded, tears stinging her eyes. "Let me help you." "You cannot carry my weight, Clara," he said, slowly opening his eyes. They were bloodshot, dark with a terrifying, quiet fury at his own physical limitations. "But I can carry my own. Keep moving. That is an order."