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Chapter 91: The Beachhead of the Mind

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(Jace’s Perspective)

If the ocean had been a vacuum, Aethelgard was a crushing physical weight.

As The Resonance slipped past the paralyzed warships and entered the deep-water harbor, the sheer sensory assault of the human capital threatened to suffocate me. The sky was permanently stained the color of bruised iron. The air tasted of sulfur, raw sewage, and burnt coal.

But the smell wasn't the worst part. It was the noise.

Not the physical sound of the massive steam-driven cranes or the clatter
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