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22: BROTHERLY DIGGING

Author: Indigo Naz
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-31 23:59:27
XAHEN.

Kane’s estate was too fucking clean.

I stood in the entrance hall that morning, staring at marble floors that gleamed like they’d been polished an hour ago. Not a speck of dust. Not a single thing out of place.

Everything was pristine. Arranged. Deliberately empty of anything useful.

Which meant my brother was hiding something.

My shadows spread without me asking them to, crawling along the walls, sliding under furniture, reaching into corners where they had no business being. They were restless today. More restless than usual.

I ignored it.

The staff had scattered the moment they saw me coming up the path. Good. I wasn’t in the mood for witnesses or explanations or the nervous stammering that always came when people saw me unexpectedly.

Kane’s estate sat on the eastern edge of Obsidian, close enough to the border that he could disappear into the other realms whenever he felt like it.

Which was often.

My brother was a ghost in his own kingdom, never stayin
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