Bound by broken pieces
My hands clung to him as if letting go would mean falling into the abyss, and for a moment, I forgot even to breathe, suspended in the raw, impossible intensity of the moment.
The explosion had shifted the terrain, uprooting trees and carving jagged gullies into the clearing. Dust and smoke hung heavy, mingling with the acrid scent of burning wood and earth. Figures emerged from the shadows again, their movements purposeful and precise, trained in ways that made my stomach twist with fear. They were not human in the conventional sense—they were predators, engineered for one thing: to take us down. Kenneth’s hands moved with fluid exactness, firing, shifting, weaving around the chaos like he
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