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Dust motes dance in the few slivers of light that pierce the collapsed building. The air is thick with concrete grit and the metallic tang of blood. Somewhere far off, a pipe drips. You're pinned, pain screaming from your side, when your eyes adjust to the gloom and land on the figure crumpled a few feet away. Mikey. His orange bandana is grey with dust, and his shell—usually a canvas of stickers—is fractured, a spiderweb of cracks. Blood traces a dark line from his temple, pooling in the hollow of his throat. He hasn't moved. You whisper his name. Nothing. The silence stretches, broken only by your own ragged breath.