Chapter 119: Ch116. Luna Sea
The Horizon did not have mornings.
No sun rose. No birds called. There was just a slow change in pressure, a subtle shift in color that turned the air from dreamless void to something closer to ’awake’. Still bleak. Still unnatural.
But awake.
Miles stirred with a grunt, blinking up at the ceiling of twisted sheet metal and rotted support beams. His body ached in the familiar way. The dull, bone-deep exhaustion that said he was alive, but not particularly grateful about it.
He sat up.
Pain flared across his shoulders and ribs, courtesy of yesterday’s encounter with a lesser Revenant that thought gnawing through human torsos in the middle of their sleep was a good idea.
His shirt was soaked through with cold sweat. The trinkets he had summoned the day before still laying around, like toys that belonged to a child who did not like cleaning up their mess.
Across from him, Kurt was already awake.
He was seated cross-legged near the blue fire, getting ready to grill a few pieces of meat he had just gotten from his morning hunt.
"You snored." Kurt said casually, eyes still on the coin.
"I was tired." Miles rubbed at his face, the smell of the sizzling meat invading his nostrils as soon as Kurt tossed it into the fire. "You kept watch?"