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Chapter 7: The Crescent Unbound

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~Eira

“Eira… Eira…”

The voice drifted through my head like smoke, curling at the edges of my dream. Soft. Distant. Familiar.

“Mmm… five more minutes,” I mumbled, turning over, half convinced I was still home, still wrapped in warm blankets, still safe in a time that didn’t exist anymore.

“EIRA!”

The voice snapped like a whip.

I jolted upright, gasping—and the movement yanked my wrists hard against the cold metal shackling me to the wall.

Pain shot through my shoulders. I hissed.

“What the—?” My vision swam. My head pounded.

The cell was pitch black, save for a flickering torch somewhere near the door. The air was heavy with the stench of mold, blood, and rot. Something skittered across my leg—small, quick. A rat.

Lovely.

Chains clinked across from me. Caelum sat against the far wall, blood dried around his temple, his eyes sunken but awake.

“Hey,” he said. “How are you feeling?”

“What’s going on?” I asked, trying to shake the haze from my skull. “Why are we in a… gods, this place smel
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good the elves deserved it die stupid elves making her bad situation worse
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Why do I feel bad for the elves now?Ó⁠╭⁠╮⁠Ò
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