Jin felt like everything around him was falling apart, breaking into a million pieces. His mind was stuck in a weird in-between state, hovering between living and dying. He was hanging on to life, mostly because of the Phoenix Protocol, which was doing everything it could to keep him going.
"Critical organ failure has been identified in sectors three through seven," Asha's voice reached him, coming through softly like it was coming from really far away, all muffled and bouncing around like sound does in water.
"The rate of cellular degradation is at 67%. Jin, my capacity to endure is rapidly diminishing—"
As her voice faded away, he started to think about something else. Out of nowhere, a warm memory popped into his head.
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