Chapter 152
Author: Perfect Pen
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The night after the flickering heartbeat in the sky, sleep became impossible.

Pamela sat by the dying fire, arms wrapped tight around herself, listening to the heavy silence that had fallen over their camp. The others slept in fitful shifts, if they slept at all.

But Pamela couldn’t close her eyes.

Because she kept hearing it.

Selene’s voice.

Whispered through the cracks in reality.

Faint. Broken. Almost like static.

But it was her.

“Find him,” the whisper said.

“Bring him home.”

Pamela pressed her hands to her temples, trying to block it out, but it only grew louder the harder she tried. It wasn’t madness. It wasn’t grief.

It was Selene.

It was real.

As the second sun rose weakly over the broken city, Marcus stumbled to her side, rubbing his face tiredly.

“You look like hell,” he muttered.

Pamela didn’t bother answering. She just stared into the gray morning.

After a few minutes, Marcus spoke again, voice low and hesitant.

“I saw him.”

Pamela stiffened, heart pounding painfully again
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