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You turned your head. Not too much, but enough. You know you did.
"Green light."
The pain of falling hits you before you can register anything. Then-- nothing. Everything slows. The world distorts, as if you're underwater. A deep, suffocating silence swallows you whole. Your ears ring, high-pitched relentless. It drowns out everything else.
You blink. Once. Twice. The ground beneath you feels too solid, too real.
Someone grabs your arm. Their lips move, shaping words you can't hear, The world is muffled, warped, like a dream just out of reach. You look down. 456. The number stares back at you from the jacket of the man crouching in front of you. Your breath catches. The air is thick-- wrong. Like you're choking on the aftermath of something you weren't meant to survive.
You know it. You moved. You felt it. The misstep, the shift of your head.
So why are you behind the finish line; safe as a kitten?
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She doesn't remember him, but the way his gaze lingers feels like a thread pulled from a life she's already lost.
He shouldn't care if she lives or dies; yet, in a game where trust is fatal, he keeps saving her anyway.