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Disoriented, lost and angry he forced himself back on his feet. His limbs felt heavy, but not unwieldy. The hardest part was lifting his eyes, stubbornly stuck on the crumbling shape of what was left of the calcifying beast. Come on man, get a grip on yourself. The team needs you.
With no warning his gaze snapped upwards, past the cracks in the ceiling. Chris held his breath, as if it would really matter what his eyes would find.
And yet, the most twisted thing was how it still broke him. Past his blurry vision, through the ashen spores settling down, and the snow still finding its way into the depths of the earth, in the cold blue halo of the night, there it fucking was - his ghost.
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His heart was back in his throat - that wretched traitor.
He had to know.
His voice broke, barely above a whisper, betraying any thread of logic he should have been holding onto instead.“Piers?”