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11~ You Deserve Better, Zane

Author: Ashveil
last update publish date: 2025-06-27 22:53:21

Zane's Point Of View

Silence.

The kind of silence that doesn’t just sit in the air, it presses against your chest, makes your throat dry, makes every heartbeat feel like it’s echoing too loud in the back of your ears.

I stood in the center of the ceremonial circle, alone, small, a speck of broken bones and old bruises against the towering marble of the academy’s ancient halls.

Nothing.

Absolutely nothing.

The ceremonial stone beneath my boots pulsed faintly with magic, ancient, cold, impersona
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