Thejourney
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Chapter 2
Kelvin fired first. The bullet cut through the darkness like lightning, clattering against a metal beam. Marcus Dodge behind a crate, returning fire with flawless accuracy.
“Go!” Kelvin shouted again.
Silver ran. Her shoes charged through puddles, heart pounding against her ribs. She didn’t look back until the gunfire was over.
When she turned, Kelvin was gone.
The suit was quiet again, save for the rain. Marcus’s voice sounded faintly. “You can’t slip away from this, silver. You were involved in it too.”
She hunkered down behind a shipping container, with fear. “Part of what?”
“The Witness Project,” Marcus said. “The program Matt died saving.”
Silver knit her eyebrows. The Witness? That was just gossip.
Marcus came into view, the g*n brought down gently. “It was real. A system capable of retaining memory—pure thought. Matt made it, but he didn’t know what it could do until it was too late.”
She was in disbelief. Are you lying?
He smiled quietly. “Then why do you think they wasted him?”
Suddenly, headlights cut through the rain. A brown SUV screamed onto the street. Marcus’s men brought out, guns drawn.
Silver dashed toward the docks, but a hand grabbed her arm—Kelvin, soaked and bleeding from a bruise across his shoulder.
“Come on!” he yelled.
They leaped into the water as bullets tore through the air. The icy sea devoured them whole.
When silver broke through the waves. The suit was already a shot behind them. Kelvin pushed her toward a half-sunken fishing boat tied up near the rocks.
“Get in,” he said.
She coughed, shaking. “You planned this?”
“Not really,” he mumbled, starting the old engine. “But Matt did.”
The boat groaned to life, choking into the open sea.
As they sped through the storm, Silver turned to him. “You said Matt is alive. Where is he?”
Kelvin’s gaze harkened. “Hidden. But if we don’t move fast, he won’t stay that way for long.”
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