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Chapter 36: The Keeper of Lies

Penulis: Yanny Starz
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The chapel was completely silent. This silence felt louder than all the noise from the fighting before. The growls, shouts, and crackling fire had all disappeared. Only Liora’s words filled the air.

“No more secrets.”

She stood with her hand stretched out, the strange moon-shaped mark softly glowing on her palm. Her eyes were fixed on Kael, steady and strong. But Ash noticed her fingers were shaking a little. She was scared, but she was fighting through it. She was choosing to be brave.

Ash found himself holding his breath. He wanted to step closer, to put a hand on her shoulder, to show Gorven and Alistair he was with her. But something about her stance, the sharpness in her eyes, told him to stay still. This was her fight. She had started it, and she had to lead it.

Kael looked like a trapped animal. His eyes flicked between Liora’s face, the mark on her hand, the frozen statues, and the hard faces of the hunters behind her. He looked pale and sick. The confident boy who once knew h
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