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The silence that fell was suffocating as we all stared into the abyss that had just been opened.
âI turned around to see Cyrus. My brother had released so much energy that he was left smoking on the ground.
âThis was the second time that he had been hurt in this way. The way his body seemed smaller afterwardâthat was the thing that undid me every time.
âCyrus was not a small man. He never had been. But when the power drained out of him like this, when it took everything with it on the way out, he looked hollowedâlike something had reached inside and scooped out the density of him.
âI pressed two fingers to his throat. The pulse was there. Ugly and unsteady, but there.
âWe were growing more mortal with every moment, every turn and discovery.
âWe used to be so untouchable until her⌠First it was our hearts, now our bodies. What more would change now that we were at the cusp of even more forbidden knowledge?
â"He needs a medic," I said.
