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Chapter 100 : The Quiet After

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RAVEN

For the first three days after we returned from the Silverfang lands, the silence was almost louder than the explosion had been.

I kept waking up in the middle of the night, my hand reaching for the silver vial on the nightstand, expecting to hear that thousand-layered whisper.

But the vial was empty. The silver liquid was gone, soaked into floor, and the glass was just glass.

It was a Tuesday, a day that felt aggressively normal.

The sun was pale and cool, the kind of light that makes
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