ETHANThe bullet caught me across the upper arm, the pain so intense that it spun me half around before I even understood what happened. I quickly ducked behind an overturned chair, blood already soaking through my sleeve, ears ringing from the gunfire still coming through the hall that the hearing had taken place.Then I saw Freya running straight toward me, completely unprotected, and the pain in my arm became nothing at all compared to the fear slamming through the bond.“Get down!” I shouted, dragging her behind the chair with my good arm the second she reached me.“You’ve been hit,” she said, hands already pressed against the wound, eyes wide and terrified.“It’s just a graze. Freya, look at me, it’s just a graze.”She didn’t move at first, just kept pressing her palm against the wound like she could stop the bleeding through sheer stubbornness alone. Around us, people were still scrambling for cover, and voices were shouting orders, but for a second it felt like the only two pe
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