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Chapter 44 - The Last Goodbye

作者: Favour Okoko
last update publish date: 2026-07-14 05:35:13

Two months pass after the Oracle’s visit, and nothing happens.

No warnings, no attacks, no sudden darkness creeping into the edges of our world.

Life, for the first time in what feels like forever, begins to breathe again.

MoonHaven settles.

People move freely through the streets without glancing over their shoulders. Children play outside again. The guards at the borders no longer stand like they are waiting for war to begin at any second.

Peace looks real. Almost believable.

Almost.

But what
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