They make their ducking, halting progress from cover to cover, and gradually the sounds of weapons fire become faint enough that Daniel can nurse that tentative hope starting to wriggle in his chest. If he can just figure a way to draw the rebels away from the gate, he can get him and Seth home and it won't be -
They're just at the city's edge, populated areas well within sight, when it feels like everything around them goes off at once.
Daniel instinctively torques, about-faces, slams into Seth and brings them both to the ground once more but that protective measure is the exact opposite of what they need, Daniel realizes too late, because the architecture surrounding them is groaning overhead, buildings threatening to topple - teetering -
The structures fold inward, rubble pouring at them, Daniel curses himself for not thinking to run instead, and his thoughts fly to the innocent who was dragged into this without reason or purpose, and he thinks of being crushed to death in rockfalls, and this will be his fault. Isn't it always?
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They're just at the city's edge, populated areas well within sight, when it feels like everything around them goes off at once.
Daniel instinctively torques, about-faces, slams into Seth and brings them both to the ground once more but that protective measure is the exact opposite of what they need, Daniel realizes too late, because the architecture surrounding them is groaning overhead, buildings threatening to topple - teetering -
The structures fold inward, rubble pouring at them, Daniel curses himself for not thinking to run instead, and his thoughts fly to the innocent who was dragged into this without reason or purpose, and he thinks of being crushed to death in rockfalls, and this will be his fault. Isn't it always?