I rose up out of the pit, gliding on currents of gravity and electromagnetism. Naked on the outside yet more full on the inside than I had been in ages. A different person, yet somehow still the same.
Drifting up, I surveyed the cavern around me. Saw that the battle was over. No more gunfire, no more fighting in any corner. Just National Guardsmen and cops rounding up Crossbreeds and Groundswellers in the haze of smoke and settling dust.
My heart skipped a beat. Trapped and cut off in the timeless vortex, I'd had no idea how the battle had gone. No clue until that very moment that our side had won and humankind had survived.
With Atlantis' power pulled out from under them, the Crossbreeds looked listless and wrecked. The Groundswellers looked utterly lost and hopeless. The swar
