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Chapter 85: My Son's Bargain

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The chains bite deeper every time I move. They're not iron, not flesh, but something crueler woven from my own pain. Each breath rattles in my chest like it doesn't belong to me anymore. The metal tastes of copper and shame, and I wonder if this is what drowning feels like when the water is made of your own failures.

I've lost count of how long my consciousness has been suspended here in this twisted mockery of sanctuary. Time moves differently in the Cursemaker's realm, stretching moments of agony into eternities while collapsing years of memory into heartbeats. The walls around me pulse with a sickly luminescence, like veins carrying poisoned light through dead flesh. Every surface reflects my face back at me, distorted and hollow, showing me what I've become what I chose to become when I made that first, fatal bargain.

The chains shift with each shallow breath, tightening around my wrists until I can feel my pulse hammering against the ethereal bonds. They know my shame better than
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