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"There's no race," Elena said quietly. "There's a rumor on a forum. A ghost race. No entry fee. No medics. No cameras. Just a start line and a promise."

He lined up next to the Husqvarna. The black-helmeted rider turned his head slowly. The visor was not a visor. It was a mirror, and in it, Leo saw himself as he was on that night three years ago: younger, reckless, laughing. Before the guilt. Before the hollow eyes. moto x halloween

"Line up."

Leo stood in his garage, the air thick with the smell of premix fuel and old fear. His bike was a 2025 KTM 450 SX-F—a machine of carbon fiber and rage, capable of defying gravity if the rider had the nerve. He’d won two state championships on it. He’d also parked it for eleven months after Jake’s funeral. "There's no race," Elena said quietly

Leo Vargas knew all of this. He was the one who had found Jake’s bike—front wheel spinning lazily, steam hissing from the cracked radiator like a dying breath. Jake’s helmet had been twenty yards away, the visor shattered into a spiderweb. No blood. That was the worst part. Just a stillness that didn’t belong on a motocross track. No entry fee

Leo killed his headlight. The fog swallowed the beam anyway, turning the world into a tunnel of gray.