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Chapter 93 - Ashes

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-ASARAIAH KAINE-

The ride ended where the city stopped pretending to be human.

Steel turned to cliffs, streetlights to moonlight, noise to breath.

Eryss’s safehouse wasn’t a mansion; it was a fortress carved into the side of a coastal hill. Concrete, glass, silence. One wall looked out over the black sea. The air smelled of salt and gun-oil.

She stepped out first, heels clicking against the pavement like a countdown.

“Welcome to neutrality,” she said. “No wars reach this place unless I let them.”

Inside, the walls were white and bare except for a single painting—an open eye, bleeding gold. It followed me as we walked.

“Creepy décor,” I muttered.

“It reminds my guests to keep theirs open.”

Eryss moved like smoke. Every motion smooth, deliberate, absolute control. You could feel power ripple in the air around her, the kind of power that didn’t shout—it just was.

She gave me a room with no mirrors. “You’ll earn reflections when you can face them.”

The bed was minimal, the view endless. F
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