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The world dropped away beneath them, stone and timber giving way as Noé was thrown backward into emptiness. The understanding pierced him even as he fell: for Vanitas, to be free was to be utterly alone. He set his jaw, raw determination cutting through the drug-clouded air. 'Do you hear me? I will not give you what you demand! I won't 'set you free'! I will not abandon you!' His body struck the rubble-strewn earth, a sharp groan ripped from his chest. A plume of dust and ruin swirled upward. For a stretched second, there was only the hiss of rain on broken concrete and the sound of their breathing. Then the haze began to clear.