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Inferno Speaks

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last update Veröffentlichungsdatum: 11.11.2025 12:07:30

Author's POV

The silence that followed the battle was wrong. It was both too deep and too absolute.

Even the wind held its breath over Lake Tahoe’s frozen ridges. Steam coiled from the scorched earth where the creatures had fallen, if “fallen” was the word for something that had never truly lived.

Their bodies, gray, translucent husks, dissolved into a mist that smelled of iron and ash. The air was heavy with the echo of screams that had never belonged to mortal throats. Elysia stood rooted, h
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