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Chapter 23: The Truth Uncaged

Author: Sam K
last update publish date: 2025-12-01 00:24:51
Xavier’s POV

The Council chambers had been a pit of recycled threats and hollow authority, but the true torment wasn't the hours of political sparring. It was the rage beating against my own skull, a furious, localized throb emanating not from my mind. But it belonged to someone else.

Alara.

I had felt her emotions shift the moment I left — the anxiety, the fear, the slow, agonizing ascent into genuine fury. It started as a low, worrisome buzz, intensifying until the very air around me seemed to
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