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Chapter 100

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The fortress was still swaying a little. Torn and half-burned, smoke coiled through the broken archways where banners once hung, muttering like the ghosts of an ancient country that had attempted to withstand the storm for too long.

Elaria walked beside Draven down the main hall toward the council chamber. She could feel every splinter of him via the bond, the steady burn of anguish, the constraint, the rage he buried under that incredible serenity, even if his limp was now small and concealed behind the rigid set of his shoulders.

He hadn't rested. Nor had she. Her hands, smeared with the smell of iron and wolfsbane, had been among the wounded all night. Through the thread between their chests, she could still feel his heartbeat, steady as a battle drum, even though the smoke clung to them both now.

"They'll be waiting," she murmured softly, her voice resonating through the demolished hallway. "What we did will not be forgiven by the council."

“What we did saved them,” Draven replied
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