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Chapter 54 - Good Hunting

Mio

[Entering Incursion]

[??? — Grade: ???]

[Type: ???]

[Hostiles: ???]

[Time Remaining: 60:00]

The system didn't know what she'd walked into.

That was new.

Mio's feet hit ash. The door behind her was already gone—no bone-white frame, no darkness. Just dead trees stretching in every direction, their branches blackened and bare against a sky that wasn't right.

Three moons. One white, one red, one the color of bruised flesh. They hung too low, too close, like they might fall. The darkness between them was thick and absolute, without a single star.

She looked up at them. Her breath fogged in the cold air.

The air smelled like smoke and something else—old meat, death that had been sitting in the sun too long.

She followed it.

The forest had burned recently. Weeks, maybe. The ground crunched under her feet—charred bark, brittle bones, things she didn't look at too closely. The trail was easy to find. Drag marks through the ash. Footprints too large to be human.

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