[North Road — Eastern Island — Day 74 — 3:24 PM]
The team had been outside Threshold Port for sixteen minutes when the fallen angel found them.
It didn't come from the mountains — it came from above.
The sound first, the same one that had destroyed facades in Central City, the sound air makes when something passes through it faster than it can reorganize. And then the figure — visible for a second as a moving silhouette before speed turned it into something the human eye couldn't follow — and then the impact.
The angel landed on the north road fifty meters from the team.
The same Central City crater replicated in the Eastern Island earth — the rock and soil giving way two meters downward at the point of contact, the shockwave shaking everyone without exception, the thirty‑meter trees of the surrounding forest bending within the impact radius and slowly returning to position.
The dust took three seconds to settle.
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The fallen angel stood up in the crater.
