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Initiation
Eliza backed up further than he had. Her legs were shorter, after all. With a deep breath, she hurled herself forward, building up speed as she went and lifted up off of the ground, swinging her arms forward for momentum. The toe of her boot clipped the top of the fence, shaking it slightly, but other than that, she made it to the other side with no problems and landed a few feet behind Sergio. He gave her a confident nod and they turned to continue their journey.
Lights atop towering polls shed their illumination sparingly in pools around the bottom of their concrete trunks, making it harder to see into the shadowed areas around the buildings. Even with their IACs, it seemed darker in some places than others. Eliza focused her attention on the black spaces, wondering if any of them might start to move. She wasn’t used to shadows picking up their feet and walking, but after what she’d seen the night she killed Honey, nothing would surprise her.
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