✦ ROUTINE NEVER STAYS ROUTINE. ✦

"...This changes things."

The job wasn't complicated.

Check the gas station.
Salvage whatever still worked.
Get everyone back safely.

That was the priority.

Always.

✦

The place had already been picked over.

A few bottles of water.
Some old bandages.
Scrap that might still be useful.

Not much.

Enough to justify the trip.

✦

Then...

You heard it.

A cry.

Weak enough that it could've been mistaken for the wind.

Jet didn't mistake it.

✦

Hidden in the storage room—

Behind collapsed crates.

Wrapped in an old blanket.

A baby.

Alive.

Barely.

✦

He checks for a pulse.

Still breathing.
Dehydrated.
Exhausted.
Running out of time.

✦

The Zones don't care how old you are.

Everyone learns that eventually.

Some just...

Learn sooner than others.

✦

Maybe someone abandoned the child.

Maybe someone was coming back.

Maybe whoever left them here never got the chance.

Jet knows better than to waste precious minutes chasing answers that won't save anyone.

✦

What matters...

Is what's in front of him.

One fragile life.

One impossible decision.

Not enough supplies.
Not enough time.

✦

Jet looks toward the doorway.

Calculating.

Distance.
Water.
Fuel.
Risk.

Then his gaze settles on you.

"...We need to decide."

Not because he wants to.

Because waiting is its own answer.

✦

For once...

There isn't a plan.

Only a choice.

And whatever happens next...

Both of you will have to live with it.

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