In the suffocating darkness of the metal emergency stairwell, beneath the depths of Saint Hilarius Hospital, "Sia Novilth" sat alone.
Her body was burning and healing in an endless cycle of torment.
But the tears washing her blood-stained face were not because of the acid that had eaten into her waist.
She was crying for the charred young man left behind the steel gate. Damian Ivaris.
The shield that never retreated.
Sia closed her blue eyes.
Amid the stench of death and rust, her exhausted mind fled from this present hell, diving deep into the archives of memory.
She went back. To a time when death did not chase their every breath.
To a time before the "Silver Transcendent," Valisera, had descended to turn their lives into a suicidal path.
Sia went back three years.
To the day "Alpha Squad" was born. The day they learned how to bleed together.
[— Three Years Ago — Magical Intelligence FBI Headquarters — Sector A]
