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CHAPTER 46: RUN WITH ME

Author: Damilare
last update publish date: 2026-05-20 14:14:41

The alarm in the chamber had the specific quality of sound that does not give you time to think, only to move.

It was not just loud. It had a physical component, vibrating through the concrete walls and the floor under our feet and the air itself, making the space feel like something that was being disrupted from the inside out. The red lights that had been casting a steady dim glow shifted into a pulsing rhythm that made every shadow in the chamber move at the edges, and the movement of shadow
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