With melted plastic, as if from a distant, digital fire.
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The voice wasn’t from his PC speakers. It was inside his ear. He spun his desk chair—but the chair was gone. The apartment was gone. He was kneeling in gravel, the stock of a wooden-handled G3A3 rifle cold against his cheek. The night vision was a grainy green hell. With melted plastic, as if from a distant, digital fire