Dear Ex-wife Marry Me by Twin Bridge

Maja stumbled backward, feeling the ground tremble beneath her once more. Nana reached out to steady her, her expression

etched with concern.

"It's an aftershock. No telling how long it'll last. From the looks of it, the entire mountain's been decimated. See those broken bricks

over there? Those must be from the research base, just blasted apart by simmense force."

In the face of nature's might, human innovation seemed insignificant.

Maja and Nana stood there for an hour, waiting for the tremors to subside before they began to navigate the rocky path that led

deeper into the chaos.

Among the stones, twisted pieces of modern machinery lay scattered - the remnants of the research base's equipment.

Sweat beaded on Maja's anxious forehead as she thought of Dylan, who was also inside. Her pace quickened, and she nearly

tripped over a jutting rock, almost tumbling down.

Nana caught her, and together they glimpsed the horror below: a mass grave in the crevice, bodies piled upon each other,

distorted beyond recognition.

Maja couldn't hold back any longer, bending over to retch beside a tree.

The dead were unidentifiable, their features twisted, causing a sourness to rise in Maja's stomach. She vomited for a full minute,

her eyes reddening before she rinsed her mouth with bottled water.

dark deeds, felt

down for miles, filled with the dead. It was too much to bear, and she supported Maja's

The base

in a way. It means not everyone inside got

a loss for words, simply trudging forward in

apparent victims of the base's disaster. Swere still

sky as if pain was

the blue sky, it's been so long since

it's been years since I've seen the blue

can hear water flowing. It must be a dream; I must

had been trapped underground for at least a decade, with no plants, strict

sky with an obsessive fervor

first survivor Maja found was in this state.

base? What

the sky, entranced. A

he was breathing purely

wouldn't get any

though half tress had been devastated, there

Maja found a rock to sit on. Nana joined

alive on one hand, and it

survival.

Nana pointed to a relatively flat spot not too

for the night and

nodded, nibbling on a

tall grass to provide sprotection from the wind. After

bites of the rest of