"I love you," she called back, her voice breaking now, cracking under the weight of everything she was feeling. "I love you so much. I'll come back to you, I promise... I promise, Yunchen, I'll....."
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"Mrs. Mu, we have to clear the area!" Li Feng was pulling Mu Yunchen back bodily now, using strength he'd never had to employ on his Master before. "We have to evacuate NOW!"
"LET GO OF ME!" Mu Yunchen's roar was animalistic, inhuman, a sound of pure agony. "THAT'S MY WIFE! THAT'S MY..."
His voice cut off as they dragged him through the main doors, his fingers scrabbling uselessly against the door frame, leaving scratch marks in the paint.
They hauled him outside into the harsh midday sun, and the brightness felt obscene, wrong. How could the world still be light when everything was ending?
