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Chapter 52: The War Beneath the War

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POV: Liora

The ground was still trembling when I realized something far more dangerous than the explosion above us.

Kael wasn’t looking at the collapsing stone.

He wasn’t looking toward the tunnel where Nightbane warriors were now shouting orders and clashing steel echoed downward like distant thunder.

He was looking at her.

Seris.

And in that look, I saw something I had not seen in him before.

There was no fear or confusion, only recognition.

Not of her face.

But of what she represented.

Power
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