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42. Containment

作者: Hannah Uzzy
last update 公開日: 2026-08-06 21:41:14

Elise

The gray world had no wind, and yet I felt it move against my skin like breath — cold, patient, tasting the fear rolling off me in waves. Three heartbeats. I could feel my own pulse somewhere far away, in a body I could no longer quite locate, ticking down like a fuse lit in a room I couldn't reach.

*One.*

I thought of Alaric's face in the clearing — not the composed king who'd stared down Ashgrave without flinching, not the ruler who'd rebuilt a wing of his palace around a stranger's co
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