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CHAPTER 24

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The night had fallen, but the corridors of Wind Grave Academy were anything but silent. Shadows moved like living things, and the flicker of candlelight along the stone walls gave every archway an air of menace. Evelyn’s pulse thumped in her ears as she made her way toward the east wing—an area rarely used, whispered about among students as forbidden.

She had to go there. The parchment from the library had hinted at something buried in the oldest section of the academy, something connected to her bloodline. She clutched it tightly in her hand, the jagged script burned faintly into her memory. Choose wisely, or you will be chosen.

The hallways grew narrower, colder. A draft slid along her neck, tugging at her robes, and she wrapped them closer, her other hand tracing the carved symbols in the walls—symbols that seemed older than the academy itself. Whispers filled the air, barely audible, like the stones themselves were warning her to turn back.

“You really insist on wandering alone?”
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