Hinata Haibara's Arc

Chapter 1 of 4

Hinata stepped back from the blast radius and counted. Four hundred and twelve. The ice crater smoked in front of her, twice as wide as she'd meant it to be. She whispered 'next time' into the wind and raised her hand again. A figure walked out of the smoke. They held a phone in one hand, its orange frame warped and glass cracked into a spider web. The metal had melted and rehardened in waves. Hinata's breath caught. She'd been alone out here for days. The stranger stopped at the crater's edge and looked at the phone, then at her. "Six hundred and twelve," they said. "I've been counting too."