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Behind Frostbourne Lines
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2026-09-23 07:10:48Garrick had crossed into Frostbourne territory two days earlier, his small party moving carefully through the forested foothills that gradually gave way to the harsher mountain terrain that had always kept the northern pack so thoroughly isolated from southern affairs.
The mercenary encampment, when they finally located it, exceeded even the merchant rumors' troubling estimates, a sprawling collection of tents and makeshift fortifications tucked into a defensible mountain valley, far m
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