The countdown flickered in front of me like someone upstairs thought suspense was funny.
[Guild War: Protect The Flag.]
[00:00:10]
Ten seconds.
Ten seconds before my whole plan goes off the rails or straight to victory. Typical Zethara. No warm-up, no stretching, just "Try not to die, sweetie."
I rolled my shoulders. My nerves were buzzing, but not from fear. More like my heart sprinting laps in my ribcage because I knew exactly who I'd run into today. Two people. Two idiots. Two pieces of my heart I wasn't allowed to acknowledge as mine.
Not yet.
Not right now.
[00:00:03]
[00:00:02]
[00:00:01]
The world snapped white, reshaped, and boom. Guild War map.
Keiji immediately started barking orders like a dad who just found his kids drawing on the walls.
"Leonhart, left perimeter-"
"Not today."
