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Chapter Thirty-Eight: Fang And Flame

Author: Sammy Miracle
last update Last Updated: 2025-08-22 06:57:20

The world soon shifted again - not with a sound, but with a silence so heavy it broke the air.

They found themselves stepping into a clearing where time had collapsed, a space caught between breath and bruise.

Trees rose like fangs around them—black bark slick with memory, their branches whispering with tongues made of ash. The earth beneath was soft with rot, pulsing faintly, as though mourning what it once grew, and Cassius stood at the center.

He was shirtless, bruised, bleeding but standing.

Before him was himself.. or what wore his face.

The doppelgänger was identical in form, but wrong in presence - its eyes burning with something Cassius had never allowed himself to name. Its mouth twisted in a cruel approximation of his calm expression, stretched too wide, too still. Its shadow moved independently, coiling like smoke, its edges serrated with memory-shards.

They circled each other like wolves measuring breath, not movement.

“You’re not me.” Cassius’s voice was quiet, but firm.
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