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Chapter 39 - Second Blackout

The world cracked open.

One moment, I was in the trench, Elias's mud-soaked boots sinking into the earth. Next, the ground vanished beneath me. The sky folded in on itself, collapsing into black.

I fell—not with the speed of my rooftop jump, but slowly, endlessly, as if drowning in tar. Elias's body dissolved around me, his voice echoing faintly in the void:

"Peace… please… peace…"

I reached for him, but my hand grasped nothing. His soul slipped away, leaving me alone in the abyss.

And then the darkness swallowed me whole.

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