Free (A Magics "Branch-Off")

Cricket and Ember are finally free, but the freedom they dearly wished for is nothing like what they have now.

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Cricket Davis and Ember Thompson have never known a free life. Neither of them can recall anything from their childhood. The flashes that they see in their sleep aren't anything new - doctors constantly bustling around the long, spiraling halls; confusing, beeping equipment being pierced into their arms; the dreary, agonizing feeling of waking up in pain; and the life-altering changes in their anatomy itself.

After years of wordlessly complying to the mad scientists' wishes, Cricket and Ember are finally tired of it all. When they at long last free themselves from Tartarus's clutches, everything is like nothing they wished for. The world outside of theirs is falling apart, and together Cricket and Ember must learn to survive in the crumbling outside world.

But are they ready for the life-threatening opposition that waits for them?