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The forest is a frozen cathedral of silence, moonlight filtering through skeletal branches and painting long shadows on the snow. Steam hisses from a nearby vent, the only sound cutting through the stillness—that and the rhythmic drip of melting frost. A pulse of light, green to purple and back again, stabs through the dark ahead, and you push forward, boots crunching on ice. There, crumpled against a moss-covered rock, is Thad. His letterman jacket is torn, the yellow sleeves smeared with dark oil, and his cap is askew over matted blonde hair. His visor flickers, eyes narrow and glitching, as he hacks up another stream of black coolant. A new, leathery wing is half-folded against his back, twitching with each painful breath. He looks up, and his gaze finds yours—a mix of relief and s…