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CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Author: Blessing Nelson
last update Last Updated: 2025-06-28 06:29:59

The city was silent the morning after our rescue. Not the hopeful quiet of peace, but the strained hush that stretches before an explosion. Buildings stood like broken sentinels against a pale sky, their facades bearing scars from charred portals and bloody conflict.

Kael and I trudged down the alley behind his apartment. Each step echoed in the emptiness, broken glass crunching underfoot. We didn’t speak. Words felt heavy.

Earlier, after the fight in the catacombs, I sat cross-legged atop the ruined altar, clasping Edgar to my chest as he clung to life. I didn’t dare close my eyes. Not even for a second. Kael had stayed close, watching me with guarded concern. I was afraid both of my weakness and of letting go.

But morning came anyway, grim, inevitable.

Selene met us at the corner. She looked determined but cautioned us in hushed tones.

“They struck again,” she murmured. “On the East Gargoyle Bridge. Someone detonated a Ward barrier. Twenty civilians dead. They targeted innocents.”

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