There were moments throughout history that quietly altered the course of countless lives, but every once in a while, fate delighted in reminding even the most capable people that all their brilliance amounted to very little when confronted with a single unexpected sentence that could leave someone nearly choking on honest-to-goodness air.
To be fair, it started with time stopping.
It was that poignant, almost cinematic sort of silence that frequently appeared in the dramatic works D-29 devoured with alarming enthusiasm, where the world quietly blurred into the background, every surrounding sound disappeared, and for one fleeting moment nobody else in existence seemed to matter except the person standing, in this case—sitting directly beside you.
Unfortunately, unlike those novels, reality had absolutely no intention of following the script.
Because before anyone could even process what Jax had just announced, someone's allegedly geriatric lungs abruptly chose violence.
