May 16, 2024
Random Scott moment
“Scott. Scott, I can’t!”
Virgil’s voice was little more than a pain-filled scream.
“You can. You need to move and you need to move now!”
“Oh god.”
There was a terror of defeat in his brother’s voice that Scott hadn’t heard before. He eyed his speed, desperate to get more out of One’s engines as he streaked across the planet.
Next to his velocity indicators hovered the hologram John was shooting down from Five. Virgil’s vitals, his bodycam, and what little they could get from Two’s sensors at this distance.
It wasn’t enough.
Scott needed to get there.
Now.
I’m coming little brother, I promise.
His fist clenched around One’s controls, pushing them an imaginary increment faster.
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