Luna ran.
Storm surged through her calves and thighs in electric rivers, each stride covering ten meters of mountain terrain, the wind screaming past her ears and the ground blurring beneath her boots into a smear of grey and black stone.
She was grinning so hard her cheeks hurt.
'He's insane. He's actually insane. I'm in love with a complete psychopath and I wouldn't have it any other way!'
The canyon mouth was ahead, five hundred meters closing fast, and Luna's mind was racing even faster than her legs.
She replayed it.
Every single beat, from the moment Kaiden had dismissed the overlay after being denied his second target, to the quiet fury in his voice when he said "So we must do something else." The girls had seen the shift in his posture. The loosening. The way his jaw unclenched, because the anger wasn't building anymore. It had found a direction.
"We need something bigger. Something New Dawn won't dare fight with a squad like this."
