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CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Weight of Silence
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2026-05-06 16:57:29The days after the midnight meeting in the northern tower passed in a strange, heavy quiet.
Celeste moved through Ravencrest like a shadow caught between two worlds. She no longer spent all her time locked in her room, but she also didn’t seek out company. Instead, she wandered the quieter parts of the packhouse, the small library with its dusty scrolls, the healing wing where her mother worked i
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