As if the ancient building deliberately held onto the cold, storing it in every pore of its bricks and every crack in its wooden floors, to torment its inhabitants who had never truly been wanted by anyone.1234 copyright protection13ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0zowO0LSt 尼The central heater in the corner of the room, a rusted metal box that hissed softly all night long, produced only a shallow warmth. not enough to drive away the cold that crept from the wooden floor into the bones of the feet.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWhyqQrue1F
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Voltase Watt lay on his back on a bed far too large for his body.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6OfJPC9oYt
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Far too large like a bed prepared for an adult but occupied by a small child who never grew.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1bStCyj0l
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His body was that of a twelve year old boy whose growth seemed to have stopped when he turned nine, when something inside him decided there was no point in getting bigger because no one would notice anyway.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTq7TiPzHB5
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His shoulders were narrow. so narrow that the blue-and-white striped flannel pajamas he wore kept slipping off his left shoulder.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUhr8Px2JFd
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His arms were thin, with faint blue veins visible beneath pale skin that rarely saw sunlight.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCIb95oxBwG
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His short legs could never reach the end of the bed, and every night he felt the tips of his cold toes touching the empty air beneath the blanket.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx6J2DWJzVb
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He had bought those pajamas three years ago, and even then they had been too big.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTc8OtalfXu
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He never grew, and he never knew why.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvCz5tkSMvo
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Sometimes he thought that perhaps his body simply couldn't find a reason to grow. because growing required attention, nutrition, love and he had never had enough of any of those.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAl0niTU1sN
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No one will notice whether you're here or not, he thought.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4vGo3fln5G
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The thought felt ordinary in his head. not a piercing sadness, but a fact he had accepted long ago, ever since he was old enough to understand that he was a burden moved from one place to another.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXPOWBPOGwH
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Things don't grow.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkC48oBi8Wj
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He never knew his biological parents.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO1uDPm9cw5
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He was a baby found on the doorstep of an orphanage in South London one cold winter morning, wrapped in a faded blue blanket with a piece of paper bearing his name and birthdate.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUYMcb21d9
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Nothing else.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXEgCVXp1k2
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No letter, no message, no clue about who had left him there or why they had gone.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5biBczX0qV
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He grew up in that orphanage for five years, changing caretakers and beds and faces that came and went.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVoQp5wJ3Bf
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Then a family came and chose him. a polite, well dressed couple who said the right things in front of the social worker.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxUpKh0pRcA
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They took him to their home in the suburbs, gave him his own room, food, clothes.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv3zgbmWcPQ
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But they never truly wanted him.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAN79suMayh
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He knew it from the way they looked at him. not with hatred, but with indifference.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlaYdwBbu89
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As if he were an obligation, a task to be completed.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4XLqjj6y8g
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When he turned ten, they sent him to this boarding school.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdYCPCpqq4D
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An elegant, polite way to get rid of a burden without appearing cruel.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgX4QkNrN0i
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They paid his school fees.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmvzWMkKY28
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They sent birthday cards. store bought cards with printed text identical for everyone.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH321G0L44g
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But they never visited.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2ETnwxQQUm
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They never called.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVNR4MxOTHV
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Voltase was a receipt already paid in full, an obligation fulfilled.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6HR9ZnNml8
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Now he was left here, in this cold room, in a country that was supposedly his birthplace but never felt like his own.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkxV9kzQRIb
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You have no one, he thought, and he said it with lips that didn't move, only inside his head.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHaHyBcNGJe
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You've never had anyone.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ldPZ0RXUu
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And you'll never have anyone.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUimKRKWtnx
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The ceiling of the room was made of old wood painted a faded white, with hairline cracks spreading from the corner near the simple hanging lamp. a frosted glass globe dangling from a yellowed cord.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLsU76t9CT
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Voltase had counted those cracks every night for two years since he first arrived in this room.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP77ccbVpdf
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The number of main branches was always twenty three.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgaeA52YaJ
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Never changing.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9tjyuknQMJ
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The small branches varied, depending on the humidity of the night air, the temperature, whether the rain fell harder than usual.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEXQCK1CZez
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Tonight he counted forty-three small branches, counting with his small right index finger, tracing the crack patterns in the air without actually touching the wood.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkCu3vTIoF1
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If he touched it, he would feel the cold of the plaster and remember that he was still here.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJ7HEWADuOz
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In the distance, the bells of St. Mary's church at the end of the street began to ring.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡn3bZDjfhTr
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The sound was old and heavy, with a slightly off-key tone from age and dampness.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBQFKWnEumY
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Voltase counted along with each chime because there was nothing else he could do.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEoHVwAZ165
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One.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡokv8Ewo9DB
Two... Three.... Four17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuLWlYRBRpe
Five.... Six..17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGWY6LimWs
Seven.... Eight... Nine17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtTq2jUfNSK
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The bells stopped, and silence returned, filled only by the patter of rain that never stopped here.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2nb667rscF
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Voltase reached his right hand toward the small table beside his bed.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOiRmZAmfOJ
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The table was made of cheap wood, chipped in places, its surface covered with scratches from pens and pencils of children who had been here before him.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaqmAqnQn4j
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On it lay the cheap phone given by his foster family when he left for boarding school. a symbolic gesture so they could still

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and a small desk lamp he never turned on.1234 copyright protection13ＰＥＮＡＮＡSB27PUOtWo 尼His short, somewhat chubby fingers, still holding the roundness of childhood, groped across the table's surface until they touched the phone.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV1ygtaHVPN
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The screen lit up.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhoksJkRpA
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Pale blue light illuminated his face for a few seconds.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡToFBHBrdr8
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The time showed 21:49 AM17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2pfNcE8oI
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He opened the running game.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC7PZ8Ci1CN
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The app was colorful and bright, with the main character's icon smiling widely. a boy with black hair and oversized onyx eyes, with a smile that never faded.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd34poGG9jQ
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Voltase almost hated that smile.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75eAP612tp
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That character never got tired, never got sad, never felt alone.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE0m4085twv
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He just ran, collected coins, dodged trains, and smiled the whole time.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDXIfD31tr9
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His right thumb swiped the screen, and the game began.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVl0Z1d5aQz
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Cheerful electronic music flowed from the phone's speaker, trying to drown out the sound of rain, while the character started moving along the railway tracks with a synthetic sunset sky full of orange and purple gradients stretching behind him.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQsROVUr1Dg
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Golden coins sparkled in the air, and every time the character collected them there was a satisfying ding sound.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡebZpnx6xvb
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Voltase played mechanically.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSvZnXopKNU
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His thumb swiped left, jumped, swiped right, ducked.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMHm3Cd3mh3
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The score in the upper right corner climbed

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He didn't care about the score and character.1234 copyright protection13ＰＥＮＡＮＡzpScFgIT8Y 尼The only he needed it's sound.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBZ5ekidlSC
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The music was a thin curtain separating him from the silence of the room, from the patter of rain, from the awareness that he was truly alone in this world and no one would come to save him.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYK5mW7NM3J
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On the right side of the screen, a second character appeared. a grown man in a white long-sleeved shirt with a faded blue jacket and a farmer's hat tilted back, and beside him a digital sheepdog ran at the same speed, its tongue lolling in a repeating animation.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbXTMRq7bbN
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The three of them ran together.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONB7G89bhb
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A fake family in a fake world.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0y23asUGmm
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They're not real

Voltase thought.1234 copyright protection13ＰＥＮＡＮＡ971PYO2XGA 尼just code, never can't feel anything.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpkaYrg1NLf
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They're never alone because they never existed.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQIj3OJUnQa
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At 1,230 points, the obstacles increased.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2ljAgDonP
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Train cars came faster and denser from both directions.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX6WEChAZWh
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Voltase's small fingers began to sweat, making the touchscreen feel slippery and sticky.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡknQIW1JBBQ
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His main character stumbled a repeated falling animation, got up, stumbled again, while the score stopped climbing and the music shifted into anxious, stretching notes.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVQC8oG43Vi
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A giant steel train car passed right in front of the character.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5cYjUgVlt9
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Bam.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvbBAClimDV
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The screen turned blurry red, with a crimson gradient encircling the edges.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡavoNAU56Rz
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Thick black ink pooled in the corners.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs2vKiLXe0c
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White bold text appeared in the center.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwvanrlvjD6
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GAME OVER.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHJZlAucyR
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Voltase let out a breath.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡibOa15PGuI
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The breath left his small chest as a faint, almost inaudible sigh, like wind slipping through a crack in a door that didn't close properly.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb9xXRV4zQg
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He pressed the home button, and the phone screen dimmed to black, reflecting his own face. the face of a thin child with weary onyx eyes, cheekbones beginning to protrude, and messy black hair.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnW5Ie0ufOM
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He put the phone on the table with a slow, reluctant movement, as if letting go of the phone meant letting go of the only thing distracting him from the silence.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULJry9K1N3
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Silence returned.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtDi9fGtW07
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Rain returned.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bycDAvLzl
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He was still here.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZFa27rrG41
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Still small and alone.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTwIdIgYGNz
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Voltase closed his eyes.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4oyiP6NF7Q
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In the darkness behind his eyelids, he imagined another place.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY1sFs0eFId
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A place where he had a big, strong body that didn't need to be afraid of other children mocking him in the school hallways.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe3Ji8EhpUH
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A place where he could become something. become someone meaningful, someone who couldn't be ignored.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWonY3DgvTD
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But the image was vague, like smoke vanishing before he could grasp it.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv7x6MIBBPl
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He didn't know what a big body looked like.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgMCBxjBlJG
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He had never had one.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEOCd41CUwS
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He only knew that he wanted it. something more than this small, weak, useless body.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFdZ0tbIv3z
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Slowly, exhaustion consumed him.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡelhU8xnPyx
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His small body curled up in the middle of the too-large bed, knees drawn to his chest, arms hugging a pillow that had become dull and smelled of dormitory laundry soap sharp and chemical.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd6phQT6zG5
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The rain kept tapping the window.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkavM6Lnr72
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The wind moaned among the old oak trees in the schoolyard.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy8psc5OLCM
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His consciousness began to blur, sinking into a dark, warm abyss.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2EvX28SEmP
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The clock showed 21:52 AM.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71arwkpDmu
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Three minutes since he turned off the phone.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN2mfhsulzW
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Voltase Watt, a twelve year old boy who didn't know who his parents were, who had no home to return to, who had never been loved by anyone, began to fall into a dream.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdeaN2o6uLW
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The first thing that registered was the smell.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMRuIWM4W30
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Not the musty, dusty smell of the dormitory room.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPczy1M9EC6
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This was a completely different smell. one he had never smelled before, yet somehow felt old, as if he had smelled it in another life, in a memory that wasn't his.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL431XZ8CEB
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The smell entered his nostrils like thick, heavy smoke.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIG1oYJ6bmq
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It crept into his sinuses.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpdrKwTclCj
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Stabbed the back of his throat like swallowed glass shards.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPXACV8fD3o
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Settled on the roof of his mouth, leaving a residue that felt like a layer of copper on his tongue. salty, metallic, and with a faint sweetness that was nauseating.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ggP96rZak
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Beneath it lay another layer: a sharp, fishy stench like fish left too long in the sun, and the smell of wet earth mixed with something darker, thicker.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTKHcCn9BOQ
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Blood, he thought, and the thought rose from the depths of an instinct he hadn't known he possessed.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU7TZBsMdEW
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The smell of blood.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqinmsI5TZ
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A lot of blood and flesh.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7TidG8UYAm
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Rotting flesh.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSOX3d8T9Z1
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Voltase opened his eyes.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzyw8Xjpcvr
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The darkness he saw wasn't the darkness of his dormitory room.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA6f7SNGbWr
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Not the darkness tinged with orange from the streetlights and the silhouette of the fogged window.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWzqIithTlM
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This was total darkness, darkness that rejected light, darkness that felt solid like wet velvet pressed against his face.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSs8iDwnkvL
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His eyes blinked, adjusting, but the adjustment was slow, as if his pupils had to relearn how to catch light.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5mYmkgCK8r
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Slowly, silhouettes began to emerge.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLkCHhWzoXi
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He saw a shape above him, very close, only inches from his own nose.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡheCpY9wBEF
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A face.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡimZ8rb86x7
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But not the face of a living human.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0Y5lrthwB5
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The skin of that face was ashen-green, pale like dried clay beginning to crack.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFyy8QCGfce
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On its left cheek was a large tear exposing the tissue beneath. a layer of dark red that had begun to blacken at the edges, like beef left too long in the refrigerator, its fibers drying and shriveling.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuH4mshK03X
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On its chin was thin brown stubble, with flakes of dry earth clinging between the hair strands.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT8QGd1nSrg
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Its eyes, or what remained of them, were two dark hollows.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡamvtfskucS
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No eyeballs.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKjU5kaq8q
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Just black holes filled with small, writhing movements.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWOOCxyEfZG
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Voltase saw them clearly, maggots.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGiiWgGPeQf
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Dozens, maybe hundreds of small pale yellowish bodies, segmented, with darker heads, writhing inside those eye sockets.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2aqGep9c2
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They rose and fell like tiny waves that never stopped, eating the remaining tissue still clinging to the orbital bone.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrTDlJ0cG5N
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Some were larger than others, fatter and whiter, perhaps because they had been there longer and had eaten more.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpt2GWPPL94
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One of them crawled out of the left eye socket, across the corpse's cheekbone, and fell right onto Voltase's cheek.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEKGivz8mKn
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He felt it.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwG6dHpJyQ9

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That small soft body clung to his skin for a second, then began to crawl slowly downward toward his jaw.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJm8jtrLoWg
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Voltase felt every movement of that body. every small muscle contraction pushing it forward, every segment rubbing against his skin.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQuWYN38PJF
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At that moment, panic exploded inside him.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeFxzlfslW
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Pure, primal panic that recognized no logic or reason.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIOp5DEosJU
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He wanted to scream, but his voice was caught in his throat.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzGyepcz09Z
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He wanted to push, but his hands felt foreign and heavy.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT6LY6kUnhu
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Because he realized: his body was different.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAckacbbqG
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His hands pushing the corpse away felt longer and heavier.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4z7dAg9nb
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His fingers were no longer short and chubby.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8XcrXG44M8
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He felt protruding knuckles, long and sturdy finger joints, a wide palm with blue veins clearly visible on the back.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgpBmaZ3eLr
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When he pushed the corpse away, the muscles in his arms. muscles he had never possessed in the real world, contracted with surprising strength.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxSIncslQr1
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He felt the stretch of muscle fibers, pressure in his shoulders, and the weight of the body he pushed felt lighter than it should have.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7qIFvjIFMJ
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The corpse rolled to the side with a wet, heavy plop, like a bag of wet meat falling onto mud.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyhWaoFEeGx
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Its head hit something hard. maybe a rock, another skull with a dull crack.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK0y2OeBYEL
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Voltase coughed, choked, and sat up straight with a jolting movement.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaXrpWbbw03
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He sat up, no need to crawl or roll. Just bent his body upward, and the body obeyed.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9EGKfUQNc6
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His chest felt heavy, broad, and wide. Back felt solid.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg8bDpIUOFc
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Shoulders were now thick and muscular.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUcs0zDLEUm
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He looked down and saw his own body.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjk26iFaLvV
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A uniform.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmQ3YI7NPWJ
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A long-sleeved shirt in faded blue, made of thick wool fabric that was coarse and slightly damp from dew or blood.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPmUMVLb41v
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Small metal buttons lined up down the center of his chest. some were undone, and beneath the undone buttons he saw an undershirt in wet gray.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTbfZ5ZvAVU
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On his left shoulder was a patch bearing an emblem he didn't recognize: an eagle with spread wings, or perhaps a raven, its claws grasping something that looked like a branch or snake.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAOUOcb8yBr
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The patch was faded, its edges torn.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTcqo6Qa7G0
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Blue trousers tucked into tall dark brown boots that felt heavy on his feet.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiTWUpIvsdL
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The boots were made of thick leather with hard soles. he felt small studs on the soles when he moved his feet over the ground.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1KHKZM61sr
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Loose metal buckles on the tops of the boots swung gently as he moved.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpLgBPwdfCG
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Voltase raised his right hand in front of his face.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK6C71RRw1S
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The hand trembled violently.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1QYPn5GIWy
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He could see it clearly, and it wasn't his hand.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAIxODIUe5G
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The hand was long, thin but muscular, with blue veins prominent on the back.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRjgP18b6l1
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The fingers were slender with prominent knuckles and short nails dirty with black earth drying beneath them.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡabiOkuetEh
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There was a small wound on his middle knuckle, a scrape still wet with fresh blood. perhaps from a fight that happened before he woke up.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoMeRyur3M
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His palm was wide with deep, clear lifelines.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHd4wOoEAOX
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At the base of his thumb was a thick callus formed from years of holding something—maybe a weapon, maybe a tool, he didn't know.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡefCJQ7i3ce
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This was an adult man's hand.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8gXgZw6WoR
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A strong hand.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8h2NdLOQee
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A hand that could never belong to a weak, thin twelve-year-old boy.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuwYnzQAH4X
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He pressed his palm to his chest.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnIsBPGSUyI
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Beneath the thick wool fabric, he felt the contour of hard chest muscles—broad pectorals with wide ribs beneath them.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡplB5Y4IZkU
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And beneath those muscles, he felt a heartbeat.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMc4jPUknNJ
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Thump, thump.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN8L4Nvr875
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Thump, thump.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRcK53aE7z7
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A deeper, stronger, heavier heart.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzAPSlyL04a
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Each beat felt like a hammer striking the wall of his chest from inside.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LDk75X1VW
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This isn't my body, he thought, and the thought sounded foreign in his head, deeper, heavier, with the resonance of an adult man he didn't recognize.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa5r56SnOpk
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This body isn't mine.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdoOElVqhtG
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I'm inside someone else's body.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpy71MfBnum
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I'm trapped inside someone else's flesh.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnn1aaSzNfX
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How can this be?17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgepOfAnCYj
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He wanted to scream, to call someone, to ask what was happening, but his voice only came out as a hoarse breath caught in his throat. 

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He straightened his body.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWFegEB3wWs
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knees wobbled at first, the long, strong leg muscles feeling strange, unused to supporting this much weight, but he forced himself to stand.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL5rZJtsi48
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Eye level was now above the piles of corpses around him.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTPMFCoNcdf
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He could see far across the field, farther than he had ever seen in his short, narrow life.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYBnsH4BWhv
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The body was now tall a hundred and eighty centimeters or more.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ73K7WASNbk
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When he looked down, he saw the long distance between his chest and the ground, a distance he had never experienced before.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUr4kKcM1eI
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His long, sturdy legs felt foreign, like poles newly attached beneath his body.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDhITHDrNqX
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Every step felt like walking on an unstable stage.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJSsotBzcL
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He felt his body's weight differently.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2q9fykO3Cq
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Gravity felt lighter on his bones. perhaps because his bones were now larger and stronger. but his muscles felt heavier and denser.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGxuvUvA5Bp
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There was strength there, potential for movement he had never explored.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZDIcr1cun9
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He felt that this body could run faster, punch harder, endure longer than his small, weak body.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmLMwFbSWRE
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But that strength didn't make him brave.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJROkj29Skv
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Instead, he felt Strange.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLgMOXKLrPZ
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Like a thief who had stolen something precious and didn't know how to use it. uninvited guest in a house that wasn't his, where every movement felt like a violation.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0mgK8xSLkV
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Who owned this body?17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJPdEjh5ROO
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the question repeated in his head like a mantra.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO5W0QmQSD0
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Where is he?17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3AxL079Ndo
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Is he dead?17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6YTiSb6SsO
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Did I take his body?17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQof1beaQcS
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Did I kill him?17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7B2muLI8bg
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He looked around.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7e5x3qC6lB
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The sky above him wasn't the cloudy gray English sky always ready to rain.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YDveVaPpm
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The sky here was pitch black, blacker than the hollows in the corpse's eye sockets.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ04nEi9BRq7
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No stars, moon and glowing clouds.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPhzBn015Mi
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Just a black canvas stretching endlessly, as if someone had covered the entire world with thick velvet and forgotten it there, leaving it hanging without end.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡitpa6ATp44
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But beneath that gloomy sky, there was enough light.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVAgUGOhQE9
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Perhaps from reflections off puddles of liquid on the ground that cast a dim gleam.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqM6FvazgIr
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Perhaps from remnants of fires long dead in the distance, still emitting thin smoke and red sparks beneath the ash.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡREAMSsiW3x
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Perhaps from twilight light that refused to leave completely, even though it was late at night.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp6lJd7xQyV
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The source of the light was unclear, but it was enough for Voltase to see the sight that would sear itself onto his retina forever. burned there like a photograph exposed to sunlight.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7w9WsYWcJl
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Around him, as far as he could see, there were only bodies.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjMlLYiGoMx
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Hundreds, maybe thousands, impossible to count.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0FUHB5VC7q
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They lay in chaotic piles like rag dolls thrown by an angry giant and then forgotten.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzVmCpnXEg4
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Some were stacked on top of each other, forming small hills reaching up to an adult's waist.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjCdFAaDYRb
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Some piles were higher, reaching chest height.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQJjuISWXAy
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Voltase noticed that the piles moved.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2y1a3VkMBb
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Not moving like living things, but moving because of the maggots and flies writhing inside them, creating small waves on the surface of the flesh.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuTzdAApxi4
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Some bodies lay alone, separated from the piles, with arms bent at impossible angles.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ZtUYnqP8d
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Elbows twisted the wrong way.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZyweP73Hfr
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Fingers clutching empty earth as if they were still trying to crawl in death, still trying to escape something that had caught them.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3FppT2aa1E
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Some had intact faces with wide-open eyes staring at the black sky, expressions of fear frozen forever in the rigid muscles of their faces.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1yj37A7aZ
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Some had no faces at all.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTjoEVJpyZT
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Just red, glistening hollows inhabited by maggots and flies, with remnants of flesh clinging to skull bones like unraveling threads.

Their uniforms varied.1234 copyright protection13ＰＥＮＡＮＡIK6PYCasl6 尼Most wore faded blue, like Voltase.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEPsb5vU3ff
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Many wore pale green. The color of dead moss, a faded, dull green-gray like leaves already rotting in an autumn that lasted too long.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsItg30P2wy
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Some others, fewer in number, wore ash, the color of gunpowder dust, or ash left after fire dies.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRryIEFip99
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Those three colors mixed in this pile of death without pattern, without meaning, just chaotic horror.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBWb0VQL1NI
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Often he saw blue bodies lying on top of green bodies, or gray bodies wedged between two blue bodies.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKhlDM4Xz2b
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Nothing was ordered.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDjStwoFQes
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Nothing was intentional.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYPsXbKJOlc
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They died where they fell, and they fell where they died.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJATEbCMTc
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The ground beneath Voltase's feet felt soft. not like the hard earth of the school garden, not like the wooden floor of his room.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡryHfITxQJS
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He looked down and saw his boots sinking several centimeters into a brown-black surface.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXCrJ3pVY6F
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It was mud, but not ordinary mud.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy7XlqxrRfz
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This mud was mixed with something darker, thicker, denser.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNlvIsK1SkM
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Blood.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9pVYi11iCH
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This ground wasn't earth.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kGihlvc0s
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It was a layer of flesh and bodily fluids that had soaked into the soil, mixed with mud, forming a new, horrific layer.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV1fbflPie2
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When he moved his boots, there was a wet squelch. the sound of liquid squeezed out from the pores of the earth like water from an oversaturated sponge.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjbGJsWjib
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He saw small white fragments among the black mud.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ75P4jJEXMO
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Bone fragments.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDzdqtXQ7Ai
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Broken rib pieces with sharp ends.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu9TaXtcW1A
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Severed finger joints still bearing remnants of flesh at the joints.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡITlrBicU5v
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Shattered skull fragments with pinkish inner surfaces from residual brain tissue.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmTK89HSxw3
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There were also torn fabric pieces, dull glinting metal buttons scattered among the mud, and undone shoelaces uncoiled like dead snakes.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhkZQR6G7oY
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The stench here wasn't uniform.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXWhoREwOzN
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It came in waves.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ65a7Qjk6rO
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Sometimes sharp and stinging like ammonia burning the nose.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc8orrZtbmu
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Sometimes sweet and nauseating like overripe flowers beginning to rot.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT21mV5iGAN
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Sometimes like old iron scraped across the tongue, leaving a metallic taste he couldn't get rid of.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw7T1XPQddg
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Every time the wind blew. cold, damp night wind,the smell changed, shifted, found new ways to torment his senses.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDcD5zuy4PQ
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Voltase covered his nose with the back of his new, long hand, but the smell entered through his mouth, through his skin, through every pore of his now-large but still vulnerable body.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡws9X18aZBt
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He felt it behind his eyes, in his sinuses, at the back of his throat.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2WIFvwKJdH
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The smell became part of the air he breathed. He couldn't separate himself from it.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6tksEl1qtl
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In the distance, he heard something.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ8v7Yi7cbU
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Not the sound of rain, the sound was a crack, like a twig snapping.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqpZC9tOYC9
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Maybe footsteps.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEGSKfuaaIx
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Voltase froze.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzRuIoQ6jlJ
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He held his breath. That deep, heavy breath from this adult man's lungs and tried to listen more carefully.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuOv4RSL4gP
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But his own heartbeat was too loud, too thunderous.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCwuT8orsks
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Thump, thump.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTuRvp1AnuP
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Thump, thump.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBWZX7tWmB
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This heart was like a war drum inside his broad chest, and he couldn't stop it.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUNz34zgXDT
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Then, he saw movement.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqNQBeatGs2
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Among the pile of corpses to his left, about ten meters away, the pile shook.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPz5kjp6INb
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Not from the wind, the wind wouldn't move a pile of flesh that heavy.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDj1GhECvnb
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Something inside it was moving.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ94r76NS7ul
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An arm emerged.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm8K6nB9nTS
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An arm that still had intact skin. pale but not rotting, with muscles still tense beneath the skin's surface.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaGDMqZ8fTv
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The fingers of that hand grasped the air, then pulled, pushed the bodies above them.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8AEdJJi7Bk
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Those bodies shifted, rolled, fell aside with wet sounds.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2xaMX9Psg
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From that pile, a man's figure emerged.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdZY8pC8YTO
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He rose with stiff, mechanical movements, like a wooden puppet whose strings were pulled by an invisible hand.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVRbB8OURdR
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He brushed dust and dried flesh scraps from his uniform. pale green, the same green worn by many corpses around him.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhdNNFku8Pw
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The fabric was torn in several places, and on his right shoulder was the same patch, eagle or raven, but the colors were more faded, more worn, with threads beginning to unravel at the edges.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWBwiB27JE3
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On his left arm was a large tear exposing the skin beneath, pale skin with an old, dried wound.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcWaueo4LIE
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The man was tall, almost as tall as Voltase.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0NMC216OQG
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His face was gaunt, with a firm jaw and prominent cheekbones.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2D7JT5HBKJ
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His hair was dirty blond, short and unkempt, with sideburns slightly elongated beside his ears.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjxJwTcDri6
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His dark eyes, dark like Voltase's eyes in the real world, stared straight at him.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZrQqJfaXO
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The stare was unfriendly.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbQ4WCSWXzm
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Full of suspicion, confusion, and beneath it, a layer of fear trying to hide behind a tightening jaw and pursed lips.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGQTaPCrk6
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They faced each other.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU20gR83oGj
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Two adult figures in the middle of a sea of death.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPmUWZhkBDp
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Cold night wind blew between them, carrying the stench of rot and old gunpowder smoke.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9a9XmtotGx
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Voltase felt the wind hit his face, carrying his long, dirty hair dancing around his eyes.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡow2XpbRXn1
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The man didn't speak.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡviS6qIGpd4
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He just stared, eyes narrowing, measuring whether Voltase was a threat or just another survivor.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK3coOwdgt3
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He examined Voltase's faded blue uniform, then examined his face.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ60lgB6aCHX
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Perhaps searching for recognition.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTGcKBMymYe
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Trying to remember if he had ever seen this face before.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡydLxdCG8C9
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But there was no recognition in his eyes.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoNckad0yBA
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Only deepening suspicion.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhg9Bdhz2mK
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Slowly, he bent down.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZOEba4M6eA
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His dirty fingers, crusted with dried blood beneath the nails, groped among the pile of corpses.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0vHEJLLVvC
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He pushed some bodies aside, shifted others, and finally pulled something from beneath the pile.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMo0hNzNYaA
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A long object.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOV8bwzZfht
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Voltase recognized the shape even though he had never seen one directly outside the history books in the school library.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCzNTww2t0
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An old wooden stock, darkened by oil and sweat from hands before his, covered with scratches and deep grooves from their grips.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgQtY7OvNEg
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The wood was worn, its fibers peeling in places but still solid, he could see that the stock had been used for years, perhaps decades, by people he would never know.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbTIUNegmN
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A long, slender barrel of dark metal, gleaming dully under the dim light, with grooves along its surface to reduce weight.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RjzRPKU2f
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Beneath it, just in front of the curved trigger made of the same metal with a finger groove, a small box magazine jutted out like a second jaw, loaded with ready-to-fire bullets.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71O1kMIDjo
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And at the end of the barrel, he saw a locking mechanism small grooves and metal protrusions, designed to attach a bayonet.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoDx8WUssuS
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It was a heavy, ancient, deadly rifle.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWEDaHlZC7a
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A rifle that had killed more people than he could imagine.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOkvlNZqXp0
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The man aimed the muzzle at Voltase's chest.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyfH6vQTViX
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Voltase's reflexes acted before his thoughts could formulate a strategy.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRgYB3z5H4d
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Both his hands the long, sturdy hands of an adult man rose up, palms open wide, in the universal gesture of surrender.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs1Su6VbJwe
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He felt the unfamiliar but real weight of his arms.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiYlWjIAcUr
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His heart pounded in this new chest, and he felt its beat at his temples and at the tips of his trembling fingers.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMh2YzL7VPq
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"Wait,"17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ByHWygRnS
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he said, and his voice came out as a deep, hoarse baritone.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpeFZJ66WpP
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a voice he had never heard before, a voice emerging from a chest broader than his own.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtMNW1BCDMz
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"I don't know where this is."17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡulVkmRgbq3
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"don't know what's happening."17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Sh85XLMYd
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"I just woke up."17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ8pa21y0Zk
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The man didn't answer.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWrXEdQ92kT
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His eyes narrowed further, examining Voltase's faded blue uniform, then his face, watching Voltase's lips move, hearing his words.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡotlaPmel1Y
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But there was no response.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH1AM2vKj04
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Perhaps he didn't believe him.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIIPcc1Yn63
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Perhaps he had seen too many tricks in this place to trust anyone.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV5tuExLCFs
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The man began to step forward.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsISiCB2uIi
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One step.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEQRwSnfyY3
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Two steps.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡndP22H2IK2
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The muzzle stayed aimed exactly at Voltase's chest.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQR8wgWNFHp
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Each step the man took was torture.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPX89gP1RSG
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Voltase heard the squeak of the man's boots on the bloody mud.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXyzbST9t4A
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He saw every scratch on the rifle's wooden stock, every peeling fiber, every deep groove.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF6fAkRchQp
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He saw the man's finger on the trigger a steady finger that didn't tremble, a finger accustomed to the weight and pressure of pulling.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWOgLd6ddmf
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The voice in his head whispered.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwr5A1ZMQc
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If you don't move, you die.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVgI6pc71vx
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You die here, in this place.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp0hOb3PWfP
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And you'll never return to your dormitory room.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUEGZruWCIM
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No one will come looking for you.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnHxT0JT3ki
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No one will care.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8MyZOIRxR
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You'll just be another corpse in this pile.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ36pu1iv17P
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The thought of the world's indifference. about foster parents who never called, about teachers who didn't know his name.

about the empty room with only the cracks in the ceiling, gave Voltase a strange strength.1234 copyright protection13ＰＥＮＡＮＡCH1PINWTzc 尼He had nothing to lose in the real world.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFjdkpDvNVi
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No one would mourn him if he died.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXv3ZoYQ4z0
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But here, in this strong body, he might survive.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbi50RrocKT
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He might become something.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8pQlCtyOx8
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And he moved.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNjM1MQltBK
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His tall, powerful body shot forward, faster than he had imagined.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuTrKx8gK9a
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The muscles in his legs. muscles he had never possessed contracted with surprising strength, propelling him forward in an instant.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGum3DhX9cC
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His long hand grabbed the end of the rifle's barrel before the man could react.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTrMBwem9qr
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The metal was cold, very cold, like ice burning his skin.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ehLmWSrOm
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He felt the texture of the metal beneath his fingers smooth in some places, rough in others from rust and he gripped it tightly.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVqqvaU5Mue
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He twisted the barrel aside, away from his chest.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP33ZDWpRex
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His other hand formed a fist and swung it at the man's face.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMxUw9MRVc3
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The punch landed.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgBdIyfEdvV
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His knuckles struck the man's cheekbone with a dull thud.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡejhhBoDGJp
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Voltase felt the hard impact in his hand, pain spreading like waves from his knuckles to his wrist.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlknXSvqW0v
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But there was a primal satisfaction that his punch had connected.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQxNYgMv8jn
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This was the first time in his life. both in the real world and here he had ever hit someone with full force.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSHj4p2xyoz
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The man stumbled back, his arm bending, but he didn't fall.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaQsWXS4V1b
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His head snapped to the side, and from the corner of his mouth, a drop of blood began to flow.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiGmq0RlrN9
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He raised his hand to his face, touched his lip, looked at the blood on his fingertip.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJaNOtTuGN
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Then he looked at Voltase with changed eyes.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeUHlPdFIwp
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Suspicion transformed into burning anger.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcoMxYOgbrP
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With reflexes faster than they looked, he blocked Voltase's attack with his forearm.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmsRpAM18et
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His other hand grabbed Voltase's collar and pulled him forward.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYcU8lvdiGW
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At the same time, he bent his right knee and kicked forward.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpwlJgyG25b
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The knee struck Voltase's stomach, and the pain exploded in his solar plexus like a bomb.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXgzDbbcCdU
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All the air in his lungs. the large lungs of this adult man, was forced out in one gasping exhale that sounded like a long, deep groan.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeOTQLRtgPb
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Saliva and bitter bile from his empty stomach spurted from his open mouth, wetting his chin and dripping onto the faded blue uniform.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxQBHJnoAfK
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For a moment, the world around him spun wildly. black sky, corpses, and the man's face all mixed into a nauseating vortex.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfQpqDGeWcO
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He tasted metal on his tongue because he had bitten his own tongue from the impact.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPWYx3Q2eSa
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Fresh blood began to flow in his mouth, mixing with the bile.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaok1Re2Dja
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But Voltase didn't fall.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxB0RBR4LgW
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Unlike in the real world, where he always fell when pushed by other children at school, this body was stronger, heavier.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc5Zxx5BmA9
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His long legs planted in the bloody soil as he held his ground.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡncdgqaaagy
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His abdominal muscles hard, trained muscles absorbed part of the kick's impact.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT1HJoiqzxq
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Despite the overwhelming pain, he was still standing.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUl8ekg42uk
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With clenched teeth, enduring the pain gnawing at his stomach like burning fire, he launched a counterattack.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp9T8JYNKnv
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His foot with the heavy boot and hard sole swung toward the man's shin.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeyHUO7CMHk
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He swung his leg with all his strength.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9sK2YBdZO8
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The kick landed with a harder thud than before.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrsRfUD6GuO
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The man stumbled, losing balance.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUvcMzQbb6d
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His kicked leg buckled, and for a moment he seemed about to fall, grimacing in pain, his teeth clenched, his breath coming in a long hiss.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdJ4pp4CAGz
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Voltase seized the moment.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwXeErtJ3ES
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He twisted his body, pulling the rifle barrel with all his strength.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNJLihQJd5Y
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The wood and metal an object weighing nearly four kilograms tore from the man's grip.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEigKcj4OpH
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It flew, rolled across the pile of corpses, and fell among the rotting bodies on the other side, sinking beneath the pile of flesh.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡazqrAOmF7D
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Now, without weapons, they faced each other equally.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ41llXyXq3c
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The man swung a punch at Voltase's jaw, but Voltase ducked, feeling the wind of the fist brushing his long, dirty hair.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl3Z97412a6
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He answered with a punch at the man's chin, but the man tilted his head with agile movement despite his large body.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBAXugle9i
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They fought wildly punches, kicks, elbows, and knees in the middle of the sea of corpses.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKUH5HO0vym
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Dust and dried flesh scraps flew around them every time they stepped on or fell into the piles of bodies.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUerwMYvAn
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Voltase felt blood. both the corpses' blood and his own covering his face.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjeb4qnIySJ
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His lower lip was split, and he tasted his own salty, metallic blood on his tongue, mixing with the copper taste from the air around him.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvrupnBbv0e
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This isn't me, he thought between punches, but his thoughts were fragmented by pain and exhaustion.17Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHEcZHRdJ3K
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