THE SUBSTITUTE MATE FOR THE ALPHA KING
Kairi was on his knees ten feet away, his face ashen, his hands gripping the earth as if to tear the world apart to find me.
Our eyes met.
Assessor Seven stood between us, its slate cracked down the middle, white light leaking from the fracture. It looked from the key in my hand, to the healed pool, to the two of us.
“Conclusion,” it said, its voice glitching, skipping. “Anomaly is… self-defining. Containment… impossible. Recalibration… ill-advised. Threat assessment… requires… complete… re-evaluation.”
With a final, broken chime, it dissolved into motes of light that blew away on the breeze.
Sikat na Kabanata