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Chapter Thirty: The Debt.

Author: Yanny Starz
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-09 04:59:40

Liora felt a deep emptiness inside her, like something important was missing. She looked at her hand, it was smooth and plain, with no mark. After everything, feeling ordinary scared her the most.

Ash dropped the fire poker loudly and rushed to her. His warm hands gently held her wrist. "Liora? Your hand..." He turned her palm over, looking for what was gone.

“It’s gone,” she whispered, the words feeling empty.

Elara stood beside him, her hands still gripping a kitchen knife tightly. “But you’re here,” she said firmly, though her eyes kept glancing at the piles of grey ash on the floor that still twitched a little.

They all jumped when Alistair’s heavy boots echoed on the stone floor. He didn’t look at Liora but stared hard at Kael, who was carefully putting the iron candlestick back on the altar as if it were something normal.

“You,” Alistair said softly but sharply. “The iron, the warning, it’s not just a story. It’s a lesson written in blood and kept secret for generations. Who are
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