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CHAPTER 206
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2026-08-05 10:25:39The Fire Beyond the Ridge
The thin column of smoke rose into the clear morning sky with an almost deceptive calm, twisting lazily above the eastern ridge until the breeze caught it and carried it across the valley in slow gray ribbons, and although it appeared distant enough that no one outside the mountain would immediately recognize the danger it represented, Thomas felt something inside him tighten with unmistakable certainty because he knew every farmhouse, every narrow ro
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