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Chapter 138

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CHAPTER 138 — THE THING THAT CAME BEFORE

The darkness didn’t retreat when the figure vanished.

It settled.

Like dust after an explosion—quiet, choking, everywhere.

Riven stood frozen as the city recoiled around him. He could feel it clearly now: the grid tightening, rerouting instinctively away from certain streets, certain underground arteries—as if avoiding a wound that had just reopened.

Luca’s hands were still on him, grounding, real. “Riven. You’re shaking.”

Riven forced air into his lungs
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