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BLOODSCENT THROUGH STONE
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2025-12-30 06:56:00CHAPTER 17
The chamber smelled like smoke and wet rock—until it didn’t.Until the air shifted and my lungs filled with something familiar, something that didn’t belong in covenant tunnels at all.My mother.Not her perfume. Not her soap. Her blood.It slid into the room like a hand around my throat, sweet and metallic and wrong. The kind of scent that didn’t mean “nearby.” It meant “opened.”The cageborn turned its coal-bright eyes toward
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