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Chapter 82: The Road to Stillwater

Author: Yanny Starz
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The decision to follow the Remnant felt like walking into a cage with a door held open by a ghost. There were no vows exchanged, no pacts sealed; only a grim, pragmatic alignment. They were a ship taking on a mysterious and potentially treacherous pilot, because the storm on the horizon promised certain doom.

Preparations to leave the Valley of Kings were sombre and swift. The survivors, their number halved by the recent battle, moved with a new kind of weariness and they had traded the immediate, visceral fear of claws and shadows for a deep, existential dread that clung to the soul. How did you sharpen a sword against forgetfulness?

Ashiel was a changed man. The fierce, sometimes reckless protector had been replaced by a silent, watchful sentinel. He spoke only when necessary, his responses clipped and distant, he had fashioned a simple leather sling for the clay urn, carrying it on his back like a soldier would a shield. It was always with him, a constant, painful weight that every
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