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The Weight of a Hundred Steps

ผู้เขียน: Emmanuel Rich
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Chapter 99:

The village welcomed them the way a river welcomes the rain—slowly, deeply, absorbing every drop until it could hold no more.

The new wolves came through the gate in a steady stream, their faces worn, their bodies thin, their hands empty but their eyes bright with something that looked almost like hope. They walked past the fires, past the cabins, past the faces of the wolves who had come before them. Some of them stopped to stare at the village, their gazes sweeping over the walls
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