This is how it ends, and it will not be gentle.
Seth and Claire thought they had built safety from the ruins, a life stitched together from memory and hope. But the world remembers, and it always comes back.
Love will fight, but love cannot outrun death. Fear will cut sharper than any blade. Loss will be written in blood. This is not a happy ending, and it never promised to be.
It'll cut you, let you bleed, bandage the wound only to pull the stitches again.
Because the hardest endings are the ones you saw coming.
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How It Ends is the final chapter of their story. All That Follows should be read to feel the weight of what led here. All That Remains can be read before, or not at all.