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CHAPTER 83– Collateral Damage

Autor: Mercy V.
last update Fecha de publicación: 2026-01-05 14:49:03

The arena did not like being denied a body.

The platform under us shuddered, a low, irritated tremor, as if the Game were grinding its teeth. Above, the crowd’s dissatisfaction thickened into an ugly, rolling growl.

Selene dragged herself upright first.

She pushed off the tilted slab, using the buried scythe as a brace. Blood ran from the cut at her hairline in a thin line down her temple, streaking her cheek. Her crown sat crooked, one thorn bent.

She glanced at me—just once, brief—and then aw
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