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  Chapter 1 My name is James Hartenborrow and it’s my 18th birthday. I wanted to celebrate it in a crazy weird way by going to an abandoned cabin up in the high mountains of flagstaff and luckily my birthday is close to the end of my senior year of highschool. Although it’s pretty hard to plan anything special for my birthday since memorial day is close and all my friends are with their friends, But this year was different. Most of my friends had no plans and they all wanted to do something fun after we all graduated this year. So when I brought up the idea of heading to that old abandoned cabin in the Flagstaff mountains, they were all surprisingly down for it. It felt like the perfect getaway, no parents, no curfews, just us and the open wild. But my friend Olivia, who I've known since middle school, said she might not come, which I was really hoping she would, because I've had the biggest crush on her and was hoping to ask her out soon. So I tried everything in my will to pu...

  Jonathan. War-born. Bio-augmented. Spine laced with alloy, bones denser than titanium, nerves trained for pain threshold levels that would make torture obsolete. He'd slice through enemy formations with the accuracy of a scalpel wrapped in barbed wire. But he wasn't ready for this. No soldier is ever trained for mutation by desire. The battlefield was slick with blood and soot. Gas canisters enemy tech screamed through the smoke like metal wasps. He didn't flinch when one burst with a hiss at his feet, releasing a thick violet mist that rippled like oil on water. He breathed in a breath by reflex, prepared to fight through poison. But it wasn't poison. It was rewriting. It hit his lungs and burned. Not with heat, but with. awareness. Something burrowed in. Something invasive, intimate. His heartbeat faltered. Then accelerated. His body contorted and began to divide. Veins protruded. Muscles spasmed, pulsed, and then contracted. His armored torso plate shrieked as his ...