TWENTY-FIVE: Heart of Lead

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Hunter:

I felt it when the power rushed through him. My sight went black and images poured into me, pushing everything else out of the way.

Sky bleeding, broken, lying crumpled on the floor. Fire burning across a room, painting everything orange and red. Shards of black stone stabbing up through the pavement as smoke rose into the sky.

When the pictures faded, all I was left with was a light head and a sore body, a heart of lead. But something had happened to Sky. It sizzled through the bond like a live wire. I forced myself to breathe.

He could be in trouble. And yet the world was still turning.

Minutes spilled over each other like grains of sand, passing too fast for us to chase them, gather up as many of them as we needed. One way or another, I knew, this was all coming to an end.

I was powerless to stop it.

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