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The gamma radiation alarm on the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier didn't scream. It whimpered—a thin, reedy note that made Agent Maria Hill’s teeth ache.

He just stayed.

It spoke —a single, agonized word through its sealed lips. The Incredible Hulk -lingkh dawnhold pkti-

“Dawnhold.”

“I’m already there,” he said quietly, and hung up. The helicopter couldn’t land at Dawnhold. The air itself seemed to crystallize into vertical sheets of frozen light. Banner jumped the last two hundred feet, his boots crunching onto a ridge of black obsidian. The gamma radiation alarm on the S

Hill was already on the comms. “Banner. We have a problem.” Bruce Banner was not in a lab. He was in a diner in Deadhorse, Alaska, staring at a cup of cold coffee. The word pkti hit him like a physical blow. He’d dreamed that word last night—not in English, not in any human language. It had sounded like a scream swallowed by ice. He just stayed