Chapter 102: Again
The Esper group had twelve members, all bound by a shared past that was as dark as it was painful.
Each of them had been taken as children, plucked from their lives by a government that saw them not as individuals, but as assets to be procured.
Some had lost their parents to assassins, their guardians eliminated in cold blood. Others had been bought and traded like livestock for a price. They were all different, yet the same, united by their captivity and their dreams of freedom.
They had grown up together in the sterile, suffocating confines of the lab, enduring endless experiments and grueling training. Despite the harshness of their reality, they clung to their dreams—small flickers of hope that kept them going.
Summer, with her gift of Clairvoyance, had always dreamed of seeing the sea. She'd never laid eyes on it, but she could feel the pull of the vast, endless horizon, the smell of salt in the air, the freedom it represented.