One percent health. Death seconds away. Boss fight continuing impossibly.
Rama's vision blurred. Body screamed. Every nerve ending reported damage. Corruption saturation approaching critical. Environmental assault plus combat damage plus death-prevention cost equaling systematic shutdown. Body demanding rest. Demanding retreat. Demanding survival over transformation. Demanding safety over adequacy. Demanding everything except continuing. Demanding stop. Demanding surrender. Demanding accepting inadequacy. Demanding everything wrong. Demanding giving up absolutely.
But standing anyway. Somehow. One percent health being nothing being everything being difference between transformation continuing and transformation ending. Between Coalition-complete and Coalition-incomplete. Between Timeline 48 and extinction. Between attempting and surrendering. Between being worth and being inadequate. Between everything and nothing. One percent being everything somehow.
