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Title: *The First Crack*

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*Chapter 82* The First Crack*

*Word count: ∼1850~ words*

Day 121 after the ruling, and the valley was holding.

Not easily. Not quietly. But it was holding. The joint patrols walked without drawing blades. The joint stores opened without fights. The line in the dirt was gone, replaced by a path worn smooth by hundreds of feet moving in the same direction.

Luna stood on the ridge at dawn, watching it. Behind her, Red Fang moved like they had for eighty days now—careful, quiet, aware that one mi
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