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 protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡeEjDIYxgnR 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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡriCTEdfaRX
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Voltase Watt lay on his back on a bed far too large for his body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DKF428z6k
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Far too large like a bed prepared for an adult but occupied by a small child who never grew.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1vkF9nyVW
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡscvLEYKO0a
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUJ5U2Aenjc
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His arms were thin, with faint blue veins visible beneath pale skin that rarely saw sunlight.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMKVvBNvzHT
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmp8EUgsNci
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He had bought those pajamas three years ago, and even then they had been too big.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3G6BJ7p0Pz
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He never grew, and he never knew why.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTWiKIR15Jg
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVPyqiT9eDL
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No one will notice whether you're here or not, he thought.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJQVdpNgL62
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsLVyh8oY85
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Things don't grow.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIH5JshaMc9
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He never knew his biological parents.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrlQy5vT1vP
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL3FbC95jpu
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Nothing else.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZOOYft5INA
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No letter, no message, no clue about who had left him there or why they had gone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEXeMjqjiGo
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He grew up in that orphanage for five years, changing caretakers and beds and faces that came and went.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhpGjmrhSn2
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ28BOFKQ4pi
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They took him to their home in the suburbs, gave him his own room, food, clothes.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rZdbb1Xfj
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But they never truly wanted him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4ureytimAS
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He knew it from the way they looked at him. not with hatred, but with indifference.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqv81eWPuhe
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As if he were an obligation, a task to be completed.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEwhf4Im0YB
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When he turned ten, they sent him to this boarding school.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6UV2T5adSb
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An elegant, polite way to get rid of a burden without appearing cruel.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuRcwzxZc6D
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They paid his school fees.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5jeVL1Qwhi
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They sent birthday cards. store bought cards with printed text identical for everyone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTgK2xO3cwn
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But they never visited.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtHkWcgEKCR
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They never called.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEAQyGCsPIm
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Voltase was a receipt already paid in full, an obligation fulfilled.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUnIdyPfyK
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa7Kaik3B38
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You have no one, he thought, and he said it with lips that didn't move, only inside his head.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOCqjbZWWMF
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You've never had anyone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ28bcs7LeTf
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And you'll never have anyone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbA3pY5mKO3
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa2wueNKfUb
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Voltase had counted those cracks every night for two years since he first arrived in this room.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrJjQ7gMaSX
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The number of main branches was always twenty three.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVHf0nmPL7N
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Never changing.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLLo789l3lK
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkn7aVR9g5N
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVmAEGJ5Vu0
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If he touched it, he would feel the cold of the plaster and remember that he was still here.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTx6Qq7BNul
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In the distance, the bells of St. Mary's church at the end of the street began to ring.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOmeSfaSTfj
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The sound was old and heavy, with a slightly off-key tone from age and dampness.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUXEp1iIdVP
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Voltase counted along with each chime because there was nothing else he could do.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKdag9snwm
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One.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdrrWiNIPo
Two... Three.... Four18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1aDNNRaNqe
Five.... Six..18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzmdUdu9dl1
Seven.... Eight... Nine18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5b7SEmGbeQ
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The bells stopped, and silence returned, filled only by the patter of rain that never stopped here.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqADcJ5Zt3B
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Voltase reached his right hand toward the small table beside his bed.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4MNncvpXkp
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSOAme7Vyt2
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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 protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡxIOebZlxKQ 尼His short, somewhat chubby fingers, still holding the roundness of childhood, groped across the table's surface until they touched the phone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8pp5VHmvsn
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The screen lit up.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2MGJw51sq
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Pale blue light illuminated his face for a few seconds.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGk1HMX2JkW
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The time showed 21:49 PM18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5dMTmtWsBK
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He opened the running game.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8UfDuXqfEr
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpeMS97FeMo
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Voltase almost hated that smile.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbnaq5wSHUP
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That character never got tired, never got sad, never felt alone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt4bmGyEMgX
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He just ran, collected coins, dodged trains, and smiled the whole time.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuWPjUH1fCy
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His right thumb swiped the screen, and the game began.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3R7gsxvquO
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpG985DH9nW
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Golden coins sparkled in the air, and every time the character collected them there was a satisfying ding sound.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGgIwD4YzQw
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Voltase played mechanically.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lEliz4Bzy
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His thumb swiped left, jumped, swiped right, ducked.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHIXl47KrVM
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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 protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡPbTpvgNM4R 尼The only he needed it's sound.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnxEUmFgvEq
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpWlzanV5RM
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡK3T5vQmhk0
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The three of them ran together.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHp17KL7oti
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A fake family in a fake world.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUL9mZWEmQj
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They're not real

Voltase thought.1234 copyright protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5SUDxtCZAL 尼just code, never can't feel anything.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAliLAhLLVc
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They're never alone because they never existed.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lrtDa9LJL
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At 1,230 points, the obstacles increased.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuGPVzMz7tc
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Train cars came faster and denser from both directions.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡki4lIN0RS1
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Voltase's small fingers began to sweat, making the touchscreen feel slippery and sticky.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQHFSgIhtX4
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo2EhEHDPZQ
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A giant steel train car passed right in front of the character.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlebIEngQO6
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Bam.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DaCCmSlt3
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The screen turned blurry red, with a crimson gradient encircling the edges.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXUv4XNbunl
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Thick black ink pooled in the corners.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xOYS2OQJs
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White bold text appeared in the center.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0LKYxIcBMW
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GAME OVER.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVR3j86oM6B
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Voltase let out a breath.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVNW3Zadyb
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5X9X0hAIMx
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5rXygWSqY2
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8geMZEyuoV
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Silence returned.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEORnnWzTfL
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Rain returned.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ7L71zfyId
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He was still here.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJ4HHgCpLa
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Still small and alone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7dxrPnxe8w
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Voltase closed his eyes.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7ooXN5NJK
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In the darkness behind his eyelids, he imagined another place.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz8eGK9NVug
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvHCBIaEKFu
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A place where he could become something. become someone meaningful, someone who couldn't be ignored.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBF6Ltp1p9n
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But the image was vague, like smoke vanishing before he could grasp it.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTr1eJJa7VT
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He didn't know what a big body looked like.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc0SGfoJN9I
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He had never had one.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMjCybsEJLS
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He only knew that he wanted it. something more than this small, weak, useless body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYgt2QC4QI
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Slowly, exhaustion consumed him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQt493mNGXc
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkBAyroQQC
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The rain kept tapping the window.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJa1ceoEIGs
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The wind moaned among the old oak trees in the schoolyard.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPP9taVBUoX
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His consciousness began to blur, sinking into a dark, warm abyss.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQGsnsIJnvP
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The clock showed 21:52 PM.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaMculQclHE
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Three minutes since he turned off the phone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ15uOWTEPxJ
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlCySurwBTy
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The first thing that registered was the smell.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCgscbooVNb
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Not the musty, dusty smell of the dormitory room.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7kdxlO2ioX
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1QdMDuUOYN
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The smell entered his nostrils like thick, heavy smoke.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUpczdQHuyL
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It crept into his sinuses.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYSavX1vxNT
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Stabbed the back of his throat like swallowed glass shards.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtMZbj5gD19
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyeqp3RRKjA
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkOwV9lMiOh
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Blood, he thought, and the thought rose from the depths of an instinct he hadn't known he possessed.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ430Y0ojqii
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The smell of blood.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtr1LApsS7B
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A lot of blood and flesh.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuQtGQcvqK9
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Rotting flesh.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmN02gOOJdH
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Voltase opened his eyes.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbbkCLKvkUJ
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The darkness he saw wasn't the darkness of his dormitory room.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ2FZbtnBKZ
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Not the darkness tinged with orange from the streetlights and the silhouette of the fogged window.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRfZ8C2GqBq
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This was total darkness, darkness that rejected light, darkness that felt solid like wet velvet pressed against his face.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1RXGlXDx1
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His eyes blinked, adjusting, but the adjustment was slow, as if his pupils had to relearn how to catch light.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlVPwJDYrfM
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Slowly, silhouettes began to emerge.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ32J1RmIc36
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He saw a shape above him, very close, only inches from his own nose.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJ7xSikC2c
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A face.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlghddWQl10
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But not the face of a living human.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlygCYpZawD
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The skin of that face was ashen-green, pale like dried clay beginning to crack.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfAvGvOMSGV
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ3kRM1hRhy
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On its chin was thin brown stubble, with flakes of dry earth clinging between the hair strands.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHxP64aahYT
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Its eyes, or what remained of them, were two dark hollows.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6rI8TYpGkC
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No eyeballs.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkdptl4BT9
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Just black holes filled with small, writhing movements.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCBCzeT0VfN
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Voltase saw them clearly, maggots.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP1sI4awdvt
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Dozens, maybe hundreds of small pale yellowish bodies, segmented, with darker heads, writhing inside those eye sockets.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzg6n5itMUm
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They rose and fell like tiny waves that never stopped, eating the remaining tissue still clinging to the orbital bone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡudnOKZw3Lr
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Some were larger than others, fatter and whiter, perhaps because they had been there longer and had eaten more.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEmebwFOhP0
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIec5yRm6jO
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He felt it.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLpieYceMps

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That small soft body clung to his skin for a second, then began to crawl slowly downward toward his jaw.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwQ2WcJm5P
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Voltase felt every movement of that body. every small muscle contraction pushing it forward, every segment rubbing against his skin.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44015edrw1
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At that moment, panic exploded inside him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIX5rYdQ1NC
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Pure, primal panic that recognized no logic or reason.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡa7FPUL2IBJ
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He wanted to scream, but his voice was caught in his throat.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5QRJCf6CLJ
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He wanted to push, but his hands felt foreign and heavy.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx1p2Q4fpu6
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Because he realized: his body was different.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKEL2OpibYI
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His hands pushing the corpse away felt longer and heavier.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYuZY30WLIi
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His fingers were no longer short and chubby.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSalaK2CVow
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He felt protruding knuckles, long and sturdy finger joints, a wide palm with blue veins clearly visible on the back.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIM1Uacpnhr
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9oKZ6sBJQL
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWYfET0GzrF
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The corpse rolled to the side with a wet, heavy plop, like a bag of wet meat falling onto mud.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQWopR3PL20
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Its head hit something hard. maybe a rock, another skull with a dull crack.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7aFhZsoKqu
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Voltase coughed, choked, and sat up straight with a jolting movement.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdWwUbrzMhI
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He sat up, no need to crawl or roll. Just bent his body upward, and the body obeyed.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpIsCi8cVoM
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His chest felt heavy, broad, and wide. Back felt solid.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBCFS55GjhO
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Shoulders were now thick and muscular.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5DUTs660oI
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He looked down and saw his own body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVjTbEJwdme
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A uniform.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8uQznFKq9n
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtockPLh2AG
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlNFqyKef6D
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd31oe2Gkw7
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The patch was faded, its edges torn.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgXaos4vr3B
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Blue trousers tucked into tall dark brown boots that felt heavy on his feet.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbGAfkkGT25
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7TfcYkwwe
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Loose metal buckles on the tops of the boots swung gently as he moved.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS2y5Xrpbwr
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Voltase raised his right hand in front of his face.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7gHPEPtQOJ
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The hand trembled violently.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQLNyJ3fxyq
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He could see it clearly, and it wasn't his hand.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8qZXnm0ZvU
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The hand was long, thin but muscular, with blue veins prominent on the back.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0D1dJRqL7p
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The fingers were slender with prominent knuckles and short nails dirty with black earth drying beneath them.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNrPY5HdA3t
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4746GhsD9p
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His palm was wide with deep, clear lifelines.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9YNQjazwdW
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcDV0Sanwyb
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This was an adult man's hand.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSKrzU0MXRm
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A strong hand.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcGFtTHNhyY
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A hand that could never belong to a weak, thin twelve-year-old boy.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9yJeqcU2hD
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He pressed his palm to his chest.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOCccqQS1N5
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Beneath the thick wool fabric, he felt the contour of hard chest muscles—broad pectorals with wide ribs beneath them.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq2F3vPbDzb
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And beneath those muscles, he felt a heartbeat.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzlC8DtrQ4o
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Thump, thump.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLsSQ7ISQzs
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Thump, thump.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0k5evszNlS
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A deeper, stronger, heavier heart.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzjvaSyTEMN
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Each beat felt like a hammer striking the wall of his chest from inside.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYrapjBuVlg
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYwgL8Rb6Ui
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This body isn't mine.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeGaQSrxw5O
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I'm inside someone else's body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi5spjCFxQX
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I'm trapped inside someone else's flesh.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSntC4223Rg
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How can this be?18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxLpJmGZSv
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhWCTbE8ez7
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmOM66kPZAO
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Eye level was now above the piles of corpses around him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuxfME1sDpm
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He could see far across the field, farther than he had ever seen in his short, narrow life.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8MUr50MsAw
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The body was now tall a hundred and eighty centimeters or more.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuJoCNK4DLC
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLR4s5GxHb
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His long, sturdy legs felt foreign, like poles newly attached beneath his body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXSxsfm3TQk
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Every step felt like walking on an unstable stage.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnATcggWdXc
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He felt his body's weight differently.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡile9RSDnQC
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpvqyx7qE6b
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There was strength there, potential for movement he had never explored.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4hEGXS0UO4
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He felt that this body could run faster, punch harder, endure longer than his small, weak body.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2PwKnkhnBR
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But that strength didn't make him brave.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ37rv0DfE8H
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Instead, he felt Strange.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUIyCVEDbe5
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7AHK2iA3Gj
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Who owned this body?18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHfcApvo4ae
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the question repeated in his head like a mantra.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9xaIuyeYMa
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Where is he?18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPFzySOaBdG
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Is he dead?18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXACO03b4V2
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Did I take his body?18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFAHLPdkoq
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Did I kill him?18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA2CdY3ROJs
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He looked around.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjNHhwsEhF
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The sky above him wasn't the cloudy gray English sky always ready to rain.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgF2M77BEOD
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The sky here was pitch black, blacker than the hollows in the corpse's eye sockets.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbUyAYk1MmB
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No stars, moon and glowing clouds.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLB3EkkhCd
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuaKLOIFaXC
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But beneath that gloomy sky, there was enough light.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9R9hKTGFXk
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Perhaps from reflections off puddles of liquid on the ground that cast a dim gleam.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKKudZI9W2O
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Perhaps from remnants of fires long dead in the distance, still emitting thin smoke and red sparks beneath the ash.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1OvM1jey4k
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Perhaps from twilight light that refused to leave completely, even though it was late at night.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM6AaHeu0u5
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIgWJ0fjOif
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Around him, as far as he could see, there were only bodies.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTUwKYEkBn4
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Hundreds, maybe thousands, impossible to count.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeb4QrxK4dc
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They lay in chaotic piles like rag dolls thrown by an angry giant and then forgotten.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVN53pYmCt
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Some were stacked on top of each other, forming small hills reaching up to an adult's waist.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbrIXhKXfo
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Some piles were higher, reaching chest height.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgRtaNzZQlG
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Voltase noticed that the piles moved.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGO0A6GvQV2
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTrSaGwl25M
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Some bodies lay alone, separated from the piles, with arms bent at impossible angles.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOXFDJtqMsz
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Elbows twisted the wrong way.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMoRMmBMeo6
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxfB4XwELii
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsIaxYVouTm
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Some had no faces at all.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡToEcLMGRiA
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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 protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡqc2bFUXQdp 尼Most wore faded blue, like Voltase.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRdzIL87mS7
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYpt3Dq1QDX
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Some others, fewer in number, wore ash, the color of gunpowder dust, or ash left after fire dies.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1WBuOsEMmz
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Those three colors mixed in this pile of death without pattern, without meaning, just chaotic horror.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI8Z0dKkEe9
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Often he saw blue bodies lying on top of green bodies, or gray bodies wedged between two blue bodies.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGqmIhcp2VO
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Nothing was ordered.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2u8KJ6qY9P
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Nothing was intentional.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4rrQcnta4M
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They died where they fell, and they fell where they died.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5J9JJQsZR
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmEc2T2M2Kp
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He looked down and saw his boots sinking several centimeters into a brown-black surface.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqUoNMj8KuS
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It was mud, but not ordinary mud.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJn55jKbOYs
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This mud was mixed with something darker, thicker, denser.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2etfNuy3tu
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Blood.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡryecXrovGT
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This ground wasn't earth.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4VZi3wld1S
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX48Y9j4aFF
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡet0KXWKsmr
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He saw small white fragments among the black mud.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQmZfjOQgpX
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Bone fragments.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOzxVAA0Ccf
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Broken rib pieces with sharp ends.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5XDJV5NPPo
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Severed finger joints still bearing remnants of flesh at the joints.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoxcjVHuMI
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Shattered skull fragments with pinkish inner surfaces from residual brain tissue.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk4i18IZTSb
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡksxgTxbxjf
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The stench here wasn't uniform.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpBj8h1SHO
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It came in waves.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoFX9zqNxvN
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Sometimes sharp and stinging like ammonia burning the nose.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcgcmxVUCCX
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Sometimes sweet and nauseating like overripe flowers beginning to rot.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgxuyvDmZHF
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Sometimes like old iron scraped across the tongue, leaving a metallic taste he couldn't get rid of.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LyAa2XwuL
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Every time the wind blew. cold, damp night wind,the smell changed, shifted, found new ways to torment his senses.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡo4eaVdQGfu
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcQmEf2ZVD9
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He felt it behind his eyes, in his sinuses, at the back of his throat.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9FNfzMLH6g
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The smell became part of the air he breathed. He couldn't separate himself from it.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7QWQQde7T1
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In the distance, he heard something.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt3jTP20X4L
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Not the sound of rain, the sound was a crack, like a twig snapping.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbn5Hhx266I
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Maybe footsteps.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEs1bjNuODN
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Voltase froze.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUn9BLpFzQd
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He held his breath. That deep, heavy breath from this adult man's lungs and tried to listen more carefully.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKwcoJoOK5x
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But his own heartbeat was too loud, too thunderous.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡObWA5gvkGZ
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Thump, thump.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCvsDbePjEj
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Thump, thump.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaBYvIaWEOZ
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This heart was like a war drum inside his broad chest, and he couldn't stop it.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU8LCHaH06Y
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Then, he saw movement.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LUZyjDAAE
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Among the pile of corpses to his left, about ten meters away, the pile shook.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz5K7DV5AB2
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Not from the wind, the wind wouldn't move a pile of flesh that heavy.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy995M0z0kh
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Something inside it was moving.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsq8A4c7qFG
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An arm emerged.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdyn8CZ8nqb
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An arm that still had intact skin. pale but not rotting, with muscles still tense beneath the skin's surface.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb1AG3R8i0Q
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The fingers of that hand grasped the air, then pulled, pushed the bodies above them.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaNydXW27Js
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Those bodies shifted, rolled, fell aside with wet sounds.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRrX283Rtk
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From that pile, a man's figure emerged.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhMMYhGr8Qe
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He rose with stiff, mechanical movements, like a wooden puppet whose strings were pulled by an invisible hand.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNxjY00a3D
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUDSr4Yot7q
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TbJYOcz9m
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On his left arm was a large tear exposing the skin beneath, pale skin with an old, dried wound.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIhQ8PPCAMu
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The man was tall, almost as tall as Voltase.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡICUhFWTLt7
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His face was gaunt, with a firm jaw and prominent cheekbones.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOOoYV83YSi
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His hair was dirty blond, short and unkempt, with sideburns slightly elongated beside his ears.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrHZi1bxKRL
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His dark eyes, dark like Voltase's eyes in the real world, stared straight at him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrVVH9ZKvKe
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The stare was unfriendly.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhUdPz4XItI
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlV7XrXJeAP
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They faced each other.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2UQ7ZrRcIv
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Two adult figures in the middle of a sea of death.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH9Xq627pYZ
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Cold night wind blew between them, carrying the stench of rot and old gunpowder smoke.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuoyCYY7K8n
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Voltase felt the wind hit his face, carrying his long, dirty hair dancing around his eyes.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBBplNe6iyV
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The man didn't speak.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡANmi0eDxjS
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He just stared, eyes narrowing, measuring whether Voltase was a threat or just another survivor.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDC8lMhUaW
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He examined Voltase's faded blue uniform, then examined his face.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmuwtKMUFkd
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Perhaps searching for recognition.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGitluzyuJn
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Trying to remember if he had ever seen this face before.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv7gVq9suZl
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But there was no recognition in his eyes.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ720yX4W30Z
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Only deepening suspicion.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwJTErtOSuS
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Slowly, he bent down.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPwMf0u345
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His dirty fingers, crusted with dried blood beneath the nails, groped among the pile of corpses.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy4MhoEGJaZ
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He pushed some bodies aside, shifted others, and finally pulled something from beneath the pile.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVwfWoxmAxg
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A long object.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4kc6kBAQD2
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Voltase recognized the shape even though he had never seen one directly outside the history books in the school library.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd8HURaO7Be
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnWN98gw2Bn
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡra6wUU79wa
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjpwuAIRX5x
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs0Z3L2i4OY
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmiHqntelQb
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It was a heavy, ancient, deadly rifle.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEZS0UFyay2
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A rifle that had killed more people than he could imagine.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLsZVFqhtsX
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The man aimed the muzzle at Voltase's chest.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0e0tnX48xo
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Voltase's reflexes acted before his thoughts could formulate a strategy.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJE6bHmjsgW
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ85dlyUmeZc
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He felt the unfamiliar but real weight of his arms.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwBY3gjUKvu
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJgXHEsHfhE
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"Wait,"18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4jnpcfCOW4
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he said, and his voice came out as a deep, hoarse baritone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZXZmRFiNF
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a voice he had never heard before, a voice emerging from a chest broader than his own.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCewSFjKxdm
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"I don't know where this is."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxfw1PLFFW
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"don't know what's happening."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsQlIUzly1r
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"I just woke up."18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmL1SxMGVFn
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The man didn't answer.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsXkGTThUr
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiE5XaEYRev
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But there was no response.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZnB4sJVAJE
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Perhaps he didn't believe him.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzUgxhgYumw
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Perhaps he had seen too many tricks in this place to trust anyone.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw3QvDUBxoI
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The man began to step forward.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ18HLEdrkV9
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One step.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ZjyRiZRhD
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Two steps.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVxGqi6ndUi
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The muzzle stayed aimed exactly at Voltase's chest.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx7W9cIAmEo
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Each step the man took was torture.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrRqa5cPGHo
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Voltase heard the squeak of the man's boots on the bloody mud.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAV4CXzvyLp
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He saw every scratch on the rifle's wooden stock, every peeling fiber, every deep groove.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKAqtqwzxTp
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4DcWq5Oh19
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The voice in his head whispered.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXbYUkAAA2
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If you don't move, you die.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2zqzSXYsA
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You die here, in this place.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ279dUwrdhX
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And you'll never return to your dormitory room.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUHv07zjWq
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No one will come looking for you.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoLIPFXAdOR
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No one will care.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsMajiLrsom
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You'll just be another corpse in this pile.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡarTuJizkTQ
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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 protection14ＰＥＮＡＮＡQzIxyRp8KN 尼He had nothing to lose in the real world.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡskmcN36GZY
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No one would mourn him if he died.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7sCgDiXTah
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But here, in this strong body, he might survive.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeYIfsJuFXB
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He might become something.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRqYu6se1pP
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And he moved.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrgAXNxMSLW
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His tall, powerful body shot forward, faster than he had imagined.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIrdykyjEUv
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The muscles in his legs. muscles he had never possessed contracted with surprising strength, propelling him forward in an instant.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbv27w49aM1
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His long hand grabbed the end of the rifle's barrel before the man could react.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi853m8vUB6
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The metal was cold, very cold, like ice burning his skin.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVewwGASPBS
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmNc4uWfiYj
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He twisted the barrel aside, away from his chest.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7IjEsHRvu
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His other hand formed a fist and swung it at the man's face.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrAzZ0fE2Sb
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The punch landed.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKe7EfNThCE
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His knuckles struck the man's cheekbone with a dull thud.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡq4yI7LTchd
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Voltase felt the hard impact in his hand, pain spreading like waves from his knuckles to his wrist.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQrEMn0v6Il
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But there was a primal satisfaction that his punch had connected.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtO7kPdfqoH
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVziTeUaaTL
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The man stumbled back, his arm bending, but he didn't fall.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKvORlpM778
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His head snapped to the side, and from the corner of his mouth, a drop of blood began to flow.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7N70Mrx8tH
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He raised his hand to his face, touched his lip, looked at the blood on his fingertip.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLtjirk1eeN
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Then he looked at Voltase with changed eyes.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIi0QfskYv9
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Suspicion transformed into burning anger.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJtx6FUibw
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With reflexes faster than they looked, he blocked Voltase's attack with his forearm.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ81tMHT1Yxz
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His other hand grabbed Voltase's collar and pulled him forward.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj5znz5AfSG
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At the same time, he bent his right knee and kicked forward.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeSedueMjAi
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The knee struck Voltase's stomach, and the pain exploded in his solar plexus like a bomb.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOI2gOfuL5s
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDzS3YWkFr
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡy2vZreKZuo
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu1aCndGI2P
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He tasted metal on his tongue because he had bitten his own tongue from the impact.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWj7yRxznni
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Fresh blood began to flow in his mouth, mixing with the bile.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡF4OtgzOrQr
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But Voltase didn't fall.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOteXzTQviN
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpsviRw0LHt
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His long legs planted in the bloody soil as he held his ground.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKFcWZeqCdi
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His abdominal muscles hard, trained muscles absorbed part of the kick's impact.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44pbaOHWmT
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Despite the overwhelming pain, he was still standing.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqHZ2FVkZuE
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With clenched teeth, enduring the pain gnawing at his stomach like burning fire, he launched a counterattack.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlUDtPAhuz6
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His foot with the heavy boot and hard sole swung toward the man's shin.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuIS7IAeKSd
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He swung his leg with all his strength.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3fpZxmftDQ
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The kick landed with a harder thud than before.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTEFNi5JCo0
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The man stumbled, losing balance.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBXD3kD6Njx
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡv2BrjNsCwv
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Voltase seized the moment.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNF1f0zM9uQ
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He twisted his body, pulling the rifle barrel with all his strength.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzvw5FonZsi
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The wood and metal an object weighing nearly four kilograms tore from the man's grip.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU0sCze4err
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2x7j18q2X4
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Now, without weapons, they faced each other equally.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrQW1MrMuus
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDUNuZ6zGbo
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ43N8l9KYWT
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They fought wildly punches, kicks, elbows, and knees in the middle of the sea of corpses.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqBjAdhSvSa
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Dust and dried flesh scraps flew around them every time they stepped on or fell into the piles of bodies.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFpray8POfy
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Voltase felt blood. both the corpses' blood and his own covering his face.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlPN2AVHekn
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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.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡowwsTgyv5M
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This isn't me, he thought between punches, but his thoughts were fragmented by pain and exhaustion.18Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZphUNoFS8
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