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Setting sun

Author: Riel
last update publish date: 2026-08-04 04:00:27

AVELINE'S POV

I waited.

I lowered my knees from beneath my chin and straightened where I sat, watching him closely.

Nereth wasn't usually the sort to hesitate. If anything, he spoke with an almost irritating certainty, even when I disagreed with absolutely everything coming out of his mouth.

Now...

He seemed to be arguing with himself.

His gaze wandered toward the forest.

Toward the stony slope that disappeared beneath the broken wall.

Toward anywhere but me.

"You've gone quiet," I observed.

"I
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