Timeline: TC1853.07.01 (Morning)
Location: Seven Peaks and Beyond
Raven rose.
It took everything she had. Every scrap of will, every fragment of determination, every memory of the ninety-nine lives she'd lived and the people she'd lost in each one. Her body screamed for rest. Her spiritual core flickered like a candle in a hurricane.
But the mecha was still standing. Still threatening her people. Still thinking it had a chance.
Time to correct that misunderstanding.
***
Phoenix fire erupted from her exhausted form—not the brilliant blaze of before, but something darker, hotter, more concentrated. Rage given form. The fury of a woman who had just held back nuclear death with her bare hands and still had enough left to end this.
"YOU SHOULD HAVE RUN," she said, and her voice carried across the valley with the weight of absolute certainty.
