10 - Magnus

And I had swallowed it whole.

I should have left. But the Consortium had my daughter’s medical debt on its ledgers. So I drilled. magnus 10

I closed my eyes. I thought of Mira’s laugh. I thought of the Consortium’s contracts. I thought of every lonely, desperate human who would come after me, chasing the same dream. And I had swallowed it whole

Then I unsealed my helmet. The air of the chamber hit my lungs like acid, but the voice—the thing —was true. I didn’t die. I became something else. magnus 10