Maja stretched out and patted her on the shoulder in a comforting gesture. Then they both lay down onto the thick grass to catch

sZ's.

Restlessly twisting and turning, Maja couldn't find sleep at first, but she forced herself to close her eyes and drift off.

When daylight broke, they nibbled on scrackers and resumed their trek. Nana surveyed the terrain, her brow furrowed with

concern.

"We've only cacross fragments of the research base so far. I bet the main complex is still out there somewhere, just tossed

around by the quake. If we had a chopper, we could spot that big building in no time. If it had its own earthquake defenses, then

maybe just the outer sections got crushed, and the core might be intact. But chances are, anyone inside got knocked out cold."

Maja was of the smind, silently praying that lan and the others were in the core, holding onto a sliver of hope for their

survival.

She searched fruitlessly until the afternoon, her stomach growling with hunger. Suddenly, the sound of a helicopter filled the sky,

and her phone rang. It was Beck.

"Maja, where are you?"

Surprised by Beck's swift arrival, Maja quickly relayed her location. In no time, the helicopter touched down nearby.

She grabbed Nana's hand and they sprinted towards the helicopter.

Upon seeing Maja, he gave her a thorough

a sigh of

ran off to this godforsaken place, I've been catching

from Dylan, but lan had

did you cbecause

you up. The more the merrier, right? This place caught the big shots" attention. Bernard

lan a while back -destroy the base in exchange for taking

Patric out of Windhelm. The base was clearly toast, tfor

investment.

does that mean he and lan

frowned at Maja's anxious expression and quickly reassured

explosives inside made the quake worse, triggered a landslide.

who's this?"

He glanced at Nana.

"My friend."

I'll have another chopper pick her up.

pledge a few hospitals to

could've sparked an international

before discovering the core structure of the

away.

remnant was severely damaged, with

made it; we're alive, haha, like

that the real

here?

were on

landed, Maja scrambled among the people, but

the more lucid

showed a photo of lan on

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