"Belle!" Hoby yelled. His partner had just crashed to the floor, and her scorpion tail had been ripped off, and she wasn't moving. Maybe she wasn't even...

     "Belle!" All of a sudden, he didn't feel like fighting any fucking Valids anymore. They'd failed the mission, and that meant they were going to die within the hour, and there wasn't a damned thing either of them could do about it, so fuck it. Fuck everything. 

     He flew over Noel and Estelle's heads to get to Belle. He scooped her up, and he flew them the hell out of there.

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