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Chapter 21: The First Challenge

Author: Nova Thorne
last update publish date: 2026-03-26 06:34:07

The challenge came from the west on a Thursday.

Not a threat exactly. Not something that announced itself with hostility or confrontation. The founding ground's awareness brought it to me the way it brought most things now — as a quality in the air, a texture change, something that needed attention before it became something that required response.

I was at the archive table when I felt it.

I went still.

Mira Voss looked up.

"Something's coming," I said.

"From which direction."

"West." I concen
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