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Auteur: Lumi Walker
last update Date de publication: 2026-01-27 06:28:26

IRIS’S POV

The world didn’t end with a bang, it ended with the sickening lurch of gravity failing.

The floorboards of the sawmill, rotted by decades of damp and now weakened by the fire, groaned one last time before screaming. I felt Darius’s arm tighten around my waist—a solid, unyielding band of iron—as we plummeted through the dark. The air was thick with the scent of woodsmoke and the copper tang of my own terror.

We hit the lower level hard. Or rather, Darius hit it. He took the brunt of t
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