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He crossed to her and drew her into his arms, his forehead against hers.
‘I’m your forever ride,mi kaya,I got you.’
‘Always.’
She kissed him with fierceness, clutching him like she never wanted to let go.
The world stilled for a breath, then he tore his mouth from her.
He stepped back and they stared at each other until their helmets slid on with twin hisses.
The rear airlock opened with a hydraulic roar, the wind slicing in with chilling finesse.
Side by side, they proceeded to the edge of the ramp, gazing down at the enemy’s final stronghold below.
Its black spires rose from a sea of mist, lit only by the morning sun cresting behind them.
Mo clenched his fists, readying his mind and soul.
This was it.
Time to finish what they started.
27
Poetry In Motion
MOLAN
The Stygian Corp Headquarters hung like a monolith cast into Dunia’s twilight-arched skyline, a jagged shard of black glass suspended in the upper stratosphere.
Its geometric silhouette sliced through sunlight, each edge illuminated by veins of cobalt light humming with defensive power.
The fortress was fortified by anti-radar plating, cloaked electromagnetic fields, and crewed by an elite mercenary legion whose loyalty had long been purchased in blood.
From a distance, the structure appeared inert and dormant.
The signs of life Mirage detected earlier had all but disappeared.
It was dawn, so perhaps most of the base was asleep.
Still, Mirage, at the helm of the Sable Corvette, camouflaged and hovering just beyond visual telemetry, scanned for the heat signatures.
Mo stood at the loading hatch, helmet off, pulse calm, body alive with divine current.
‘Mo, you are good to go.’
Without ceremony, he leaned over the edge of the rear bay and fell, a meteor in midnight armor.
As he dropped, the glyphs engraved into his suit lit up like runes of war.
He descended like a verdict.
His Sacran-infused blood surged through his limbs, every molecule tuned to precision and power.
The credentials from the data cube, coded into his nanite suit, helped him punch through the invisible energy shield.
He righted himself from a head-down bullet approach to feet first, slowing his velocity until he landed on the dark building’s roof without a sound.
