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Trust that it will get us there in time.

My gravito swells, promising me it will.

Then it detonates. And I blur forward.

Leaving a thunderclap of sound in my wake.

Chapter 113

Nix

Fear clogs my throat. Before me is nothing but water.

Just water.

I fight to stop.

I try to stop.

But Morell’s fingers are wrapped in my hair, and he’s pushing me forward.

Tears fill my vision.

From the pain.

From the sadness.

I don’t want it to end this way.

I don’t want to meet my end all alone.

The weight in my chest expands through my body.

It fills my limbs.

It reminds me that it’s here.

I am here.

My heart squeezes.

I know.

My heartbeat slows.

I breathe.

I stare straight forward.

I make him push me.

I make him make me.

The waves are so far away.

So far below.

But the sound of them…