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Everything to Save Her

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Elias decides to tell her the truth at the diner that night. He shows her the burn scars on his hands from the coil. She believes him. Together they drive back to his basement to study the machine. But the basement door is already open, and another Elias, older, gaunt, and bleeding, is waiting inside. 'You shouldn't have saved her,' the older man rasps.

Young Elias doesn't trust the bleeding stranger and lunges at him. They fight on the basement floor. The machine sparks and overloads in the struggle. Mara screams for them to stop. The coil ruptures, and white light floods everything, swallowing all three of them at once.

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