Chapter 4 - EXPLORING THE UNSOLD HORIZON
As Luca regained consciousness, coughing against the thick smoke and clutching his bruised ribs, Elena stood up and surveyed their bleak environment. The wreckage was burning down to ash, destroying any satellite phones, emergency beacons, or food supplies they might have salvaged. The beach curved in a desolate crescent, flanked by jagged cliff faces to the north and an impenetrable wall of tropical vegetation to the west. They had nothing—no tools, no fresh water, and no shelter. Yet, as Luca pushed himself up from the sand with a grimace of pain, his dark eyes didn't show fear; they scanned the horizon with the exact same calculating coldness he used in his corporate boardrooms.
