{Outside The Projection}
"It's done."
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For a moment, there was nothing.
Just silence.
Then—
"WHAT THE HELL DID WE JUST FUCKING WITNESS?!"
The room detonated.
Voices crashed into each other, shouting, losing all sense of control.
Noor's command for silence? Forgotten. Crushed beneath the sheer weight of what they had just seen. There was no holding back. There was no staying still. Every single person who had just witnessed that projection was losing their minds.
"Holy—HOLY SHIT!"
"HE PICKED UP A GATE!"
"A WHOLE FUCKING GATE!"
"A STEEL GATE! AS A JINN, AN AL-NAQI!"
"HE THREW IT LIKE IT WAS A DAMN PEBBLE!"
These young men screamed their lungs out, hands clutching at their heads like they were trying to keep their brains from exploding.
"FORGET THAT! NIGHT OF THE KITTEN? WHY DIDN'T WE HEAR ABOUT ANY OF THAT BEFORE?!"
"DID YOU SEE HOW HE FOUGHT? HE JUST—HE JUST—HE—"