Chapter 36 Chapter 36: When the Sky Broke
I suppose there are two kinds of silence in war: the silence that hums because everyone is listening for the next order, and the silence that screams because someone you love might already be gone. That morning the clinic had the second kind.
I was finishing a late intake—an older corporal with a ja...
Chapters
1. Chapter 1 Chapter 1: The Weight of Silence
2. Chapter 2 Chapter 2: The Frost Line
3. Chapter 3 Chapter 3: Coin and Compass
4. Chapter 4 Chapter 4: The Man Who Wasn't on the Pyre
5. Chapter 5 Chapter 5: The Sound of Silence
6. Chapter 6 Chapter 6: The First Snowfall
7. Chapter 7 Chapter 7: The Clinic at Dawn
8. Chapter 8 Chapter 8: Beneath the Uniform
9. Chapter 9 Chapter 9: Echoes in the Snow
10. Chapter 10 Chapter 10: When the World Stood Still
11. Chapter 11 Chapter 11: Echoes of Guilt
12. Chapter 12 Chapter 12: Beneath the Surface
13. Chapter 13 Chapter 13: The Weight of Secrets
14. Chapter 14 Chapter 14: Fragments of the Past
15. Chapter 15 Chapter 15: A Promise in the Ashes
16. Chapter 16 Chapter 16: After the Storm
17. Chapter 17 Chapter 17: When Gunfire Sang Our First Kiss
18. Chapter 18 Chapter 18: Echoes of Departure
19. Chapter 19 Chapter 19: The Weight of Duty
20. Chapter 20 Chapter 20: The Pause Between Gunshots
21. Chapter 21 Chapter 21: Letters Through the Ice
22. Chapter 22 Chapter 22: Whispers Across the Front
23. Chapter 23 Chapter 23: Shadows of Silence
24. Chapter 24 Chapter 24: Embers of Yesterday
25. Chapter 25 Chapter 25: The Weight of Waiting
26. Chapter 26 Chapter 26: Fractures in the Ice
27. Chapter 27 Chapter 27: Beneath the Snowdrifts
28. Chapter 28 Chapter 28: Through the White Silence
29. Chapter 29 Chapter 29: The Calm Before the Storm
30. Chapter 30 Chapter 30: Echoes of Departure
31. Chapter 31 Chapter 31: Fractured Promises
32. Chapter 32 Chapter 32: When the Walls Whisper
33. Chapter 33 Chapter 33: Shards of Nightfall
34. Chapter 34 Chapter 34: Between Breath and Battle
35. Chapter 35 Chapter 35: The Edge of Silence
36. Chapter 36 Chapter 36: When the Sky Broke
37. Chapter 37 Chapter 37 : Between Duty and Dawn
38. Chapter 38 Chapter 38: Signals in the Static
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