~Kendrix
They say time doesn’t stop for anyone.
Turns out, that includes people lying in comas.
Two days had passed since the night everything fell apart—Ciela, still unmoving in that hospital bed, machines breathing for her; Laurent, gone without a trace. No note, no message, not even a whisper from Denzel about where he might’ve gone.
So, yeah. Life moved on. Classes resumed, tournaments restarted, and the Academy acted like the world hadn’t tilted off its axis.
Me? I needed a distraction. I needed noise.
That’s how I found myself standing in the center of this arena again.
The roar of the crowd filled the stadium—thousands of voices layered over each other, waves of heat and excitement rolling through the air. Dust lifted from the sand-covered ground as combatants from earlier fi
