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Chapter Fifty
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2025-11-13 09:42:20Kairos’s POV
"The first people to arrive when word spreads that a god has risen are hunters, not believers."
The anxiety brought by the storm persisted even after it broke before morning.
As the first riders emerged on the horizon, snowmelt poured down the cobblestones in thin rivers. They were dark figures riding through the pale mist with banners that didn't belong to any pack I could identify.
At the gates, Vaughn greeted me. "They arrived quickly," he rem
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