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Chapter Sixty-Eight: Hunting the Remnants

last update Data de publicação: 2026-05-04 18:52:15

Kael's POV

Elena's verification took sixteen hours of cross-referencing Kira's testimony with intelligence we had gathered over months. Every detail checked out. The Council summit was real. The assassination plot was real. And we had four days to stop it.

"The documents are in Celeste's command tent," Elena confirmed at the emergency council meeting. "Kira provided exact locations, security rotations, and access codes. Either she is telling the truth or this is the most elaborate trap in histo
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