[Verse 1]
Cassie assessed the situation:
No Chaos. No captain. No direction.
“I will take this”
Castor: “We hold here”
Herc: right hand on the gate
The trio stepped forward
Havoc: “We have excellent chemistry”
Mayhem: “Exceptional”
All three had destroyed something
In the last sixty seconds
By standing there
Then Brome stood up
Half the structure was gone
“That was not a wall I needed”
Brome: “It was not intentional”
“I know”
[Pre-Chorus]
Cassie gave instructions:
Do not touch the walls
Do not touch the floor
Do not touch anything standing
Nod if you understand
They nodded
Ruin touched a pillar
It fell
“I barely—”
“I know”
[Chorus]
Precision decision
One step
Formation tight
Movement precise
Cassie up front
The rest behind her
Exactly where she said
Mostly
Precision decision
Level 49
Nothing yet
Then —
[Verse 2]
A child
The same wrong quality of space
The same stillness
Then gone
Rion: “There is a—”
Persy: “Soup or chicken”
“There is a CHILD”
“We’ll circle back”
The child disappeared
[The Reunion]
Level 49 to 48
48 to 47
Brome through a wall
“I have found people”
Chaos. Persy. Rion. Crotus. Solvren.
Level 47. Eating.
“Captain. What level is this.”
“47”
“You went down”
“…we went sideways”
“This is 47”
Chaos: “The chicken was good”
Cassie: “We will discuss this later”
[The Myling]
Then the child appeared
Between all of them
Cassie did not move to fight
Cassie looked
“Myling”
“A what”
“Child spirit. Bound. Unburied.”
“How do we—”
“Carefully”
The destruction overload team immediately engaged
[Bridge]
Brome swung — the Myling moved — the wall did not
Havoc came left — Myling wasn’t left — the shelf was gone
Mayhem: “I almost had it”
(it was above him the entire time)
Ruin tried a different approach
(three things destroyed, none of them the Myling)
Brome through the ceiling
Back through the floor
“I do not understand this creature”
Then Cassie waited
Until they had destroyed everything they were going to destroy
Then she moved
Once. Right direction. Right intention.
The Myling went still
The space corrected
Gone
[Final Chorus]
Precision decision
Done
She reached down
A bounty note
A number
A name
A commission
Cassie picked it up
Read it
Folded it
Put it away
Precision decision
The room was mostly gone
They had given it everything
[Outro]
Havoc: “We were helpful”
Cassie: “You cleared the area”
“That is helping”
Brome: “Was any of this load-bearing”
Chaos: “Where are we going”
“Up,” said Cassie
Cassie was already walking
The bounty in her pocket
Level 47
Mostly intact
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