Chapter 1 - String

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I was born a hunter.

I smell ash and the leather back-seats of age-old pick-up trucks.

I taste the back-of-the-throat acidic reek of blood that never washes out, no matter how much I scrub and scour, no matter how many glasses of smoky gold corruption drip from my intently chewed lips.

I fight what I am. I am a lost cause. I am a bird with broken wings and scorched feathers.

I am alone.

"Hey-hey, stay with me, (Y/N) - Sam, get in here! Come on-wait stay with me, nonono-"

The blackness returned and it felt warm and deep and soft and it swallowed you whole like a sugar pill and you could feel yourself dissolving and breaking apart like the centre of a slow-burning star, and all you want to do is fall and sleep and stop fighting running fearing the fearohgodthefear-

You vaguely register a name being spoken, yelled, but the dark is so warm and full you just want to stop trying to withstand the tide and sink-

A touch, fingertips - the same heat you feel from the engine when you go on a particularly long hunt - and it almost hurts, how distant the feeling is, how disconnected and separate you feel, nerves severed and cut loose, a puppet with a single string, dancing on the edge of the world-

And then-

A single tug, a reassuring heartbeat pull, and you feel something other than the dark – a heat, a warmth, not deep and dark, but bright and unfaltering like –

like-

a smile you caught in the rear-view mirror.

A stomach-twisting flash of lighting green, dark pupils blown asphalt black by surging adrenaline – fast, we were driving fast-

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