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CHAPTER 69: CONFLICTED

Author: YomWrites
last update publish date: 2026-03-15 15:32:13

LUCEN’S POV

The eastern border was silent when we arrived.

Too silent.

The kind of silence that was followed by the storm... by something big.

The forest stretched for miles, a wall of ancient pines whose branches knotted together so tightly that even moonlight struggled to slip through. The air smelled of damp earth and iron. Vulk caught it before the scouts even finished their report. Blood.

I stepped out of the vehicle before it had fully stopped. Drew followed behind me, already speaking in
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