Chapter 2 · free to read
The bell had rung. And something in the abyss had answered.
It rose like a second horizon. Every gauge on the dock cracked from the pressure of its wake.
But the beast did not strike. It stared — at Kai. And Kai's eyes answered with the same light.
The truth he'd hidden his whole life had a source. He never chose not to breathe. Something down there had chosen it for him.
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