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Chapter 73 - The transmission

Author: Red Craine
last update Last Updated: 2026-01-21 14:55:49

3rd POV

Astrid waited until she heard Marcus’s breathing deepen into sleep before she moved. The bedroom was dark, moonlight filtering weakly through the curtains, casting his face in soft shadows. He looked peaceful and trusting of her.

Which was Foolish of him.

She slipped from the bed with practiced silence, bare feet making no sound on the hardwood floor. The house settled around her, old wood creaking, but she’d memorized every sound by now and knew which floorboards to avoid, which doors squeaked, and where everyone slept.

She believed that Information was survival while Control was victory.

She made her way to the small office Marcus rarely used, shutting the door and locking it with a quiet click. Then she pulled the blackout curtains closed and activated the silence ward she’d carefully woven into the room’s corners over the past four days. No sound would escape and no magical signature would leak beyond these walls.

Well, almost none. Joan’s detection crystal would catch th
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