If you like music while you read, try "Meet Me on the Battlefield" by SVRCINA. It's the song I was listening to while writing the next few chapters!
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~ SASHA ~
Sasha started by explaining what she'd done in the gateway—not to find the females in the Compound, but just the part where she asked the Gateway to take her to a world where the humans could never interfere with them again.
"It was beautiful," she said, hope warming her tone. "There were mountains—some of them had snow—and trees. Hills and grassy lands. It was easily as big as Thana, maybe larger, I don't know. But it just looked… wild and untouched. And it smelled so fresh—just like Thana does compared to the human world."
Yet, as she described the land and her hope for it, many of the creatures began to move away, some farewelling others, but all shifting away as if they'd heard what they needed and they weren't going to stay.
