Wait.

Something was wrong. I felt the shift, felt myself detach from Max in the final instant.

WAIT!

No, not to come so far just to lose now.

Sudden, crushing pressure, choking, dying. It was supposed to end quietly, gone in a flash of an instant, not drained, empty, broken.

Falling.

I fell, hurtling toward the ground below, slow motion all over again while the two armies ...