Dylan's POV
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against a wall — well, it wasn't really a wall. More like a giant rock, half-buried outside the wooded part of the forest. A massive hunk of stone that looked like it could topple into the nearby chasm at any moment… but it was so huge that even with their newfound strength, they wouldn't have been able to move it.
To their right: the abyss.
To their left: the forest.
And with no faith left in their ability to defend themselves after the backlash from the core shock, the trio had chosen to camp right there — out in the open, at the edge of nothing.
Dylan felt paralyzed. Every limb numb, heat pulsing through his body like a slow-burning fire. Moving was out of the question.
"Never again…" he thought, gnawing on the idea that they were stuck in such a hostile place, with zero means of defending themselves. One of the worst-case scenarios.
