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Chapter One-Hundred and Two: Eyes in the Shadows
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2026-07-05 00:24:31
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The footsteps grew louder.Closer.Natasha pressed herself deeper into the gap behind the woodpile, her back against rough-hewn logs that smelled of pine sap and old iron. Her shoulder screamed with each shallow breath, the fresh bandages pulling against swollen tissue. She bit down on the inside of her cheek, tasting copper, and waited.A shadow moved at the edge of her vision.Rook slipped from behind the smithy with the practiced ease of a man who had made this journey dozens of times before. He moved low, shoulders hunched, his body folded into the darkness like he was part of it. His boots barely made contact with the packed earth. Heel to toe. Heel to toe. Each step measured and deliberate. He was lean, wiry, with dark hair that fell across his forehead and a scar cutting through his left eyebrow.Lyra's description had been accurate.He paused three feet from the woodpile, his head turning slowly as he scanned the eastern wall. His eyes swept left, then right, checking for patr
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Natasha's boots dragged against the packed earth as she made her way toward the healer's tent. Each step sent a jarring pulse through her wounded arm, blood sliding in a slow, warm trickle from the gash Rook's blade had carved across her forearm. She kept the folded paper pressed against her palm with her thumb, unwilling to set it down even as her fingers grew slick and red.The camp had gone quiet in the aftermath of the capture. Tents stood like dark sentinels under the moonless sky, their canvas walls catching the faint orange glow of dying cookfires. A few refugees lingered near the eastern wall, their faces pale and watchful, but Natasha's glare sent them scattering. Lyra was nowhere to be seen, smart enough to vanish before questions could be asked.The healer's tent smelled of dried herbs and something sharper, something mineral. The old woman inside didn't look up when Natasha pushed through the flap. She simply pointed to the low cot in the corner with a gnarled finger and c
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The captive talked. His words tumbled out in a desperate, breathless stream. Names of tents, paths between supply stacks, the drainage ditch that ran along the eastern wall where the shadows pooled thick enough to swallow a man whole. Damien listened without mercy, his grip on the man's neck tightening each time the details grew vague. The captive's eyes bulged, veins standing out on his temples as he gasped between answers."Again," Damien said, his voice deceptively calm. "The space behind the smithy. Slower this time. Every detail."The captive swallowed hard, Adam's apple bobbing against Damien's thumb. "There's a gap between the back wall and the woodpile. Wide enough for a man to press into. Maybe three feet deep, maybe less. The woodpile covers it from the main camp side. You can't see it unless you walk behind the smithy itself.""How did you find it?""I was hauling scrap iron. Dropped a piece, it rolled behind the stack. I crawled in after it. Saw someone's blanket there. Ro
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Natasha's blood ran cold.Outwardly, she remained perfectly still.Inside, her thoughts raced.Someone had been watching her the night the refugees entered camp.Someone who carried messages between enemy strongholds.Someone who might still be walking among the Shadow Fang."Think carefully," Natasha said, keeping her voice barely above a whisper. "What else do you remember? His build. The way he walked. Who he spoke to."Lyra closed her eyes.For several moments, she searched through memories she clearly wished she'd forgotten."He wasn't large."Her brow furrowed."Average height.""Lean.""He moved quietly."Her fingers drifted to her own face."The scar was old."She traced a line from the corner of her mouth to her jaw."White.""Easy to miss until he turned his head."Natasha committed every detail to memory."Did he have a name?""Cole called him Rook."Lyra hesitated."Or maybe it wasn't a name.""Maybe it was what he was."Natasha waited."He never stayed anywhere for long."
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