Chapter 156

• Thoughts raced through my mind at a rollercoaster speed—quick yet agonizingly slow. It was hard to process everything happening around me, but as soon as I heard the gunfire erupt from Thor's weapon aimed at me, I made my move.
• I felt a sharp pain pierce through my shoulder as I was thrown brutally to the ground, a shockwave of agony reverberating throughout my entire body. I had never experienced being shot before, but the sheer chaos and violence of it all surprised me more than the pain that followed. In that moment, I even contemplated whether it might have been better to have taken a bullet to the head instead. Almost.
• "Aadita!" I heard Xavier call out, his voice a mixture of fear and panic that penetrated my own feelings.