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CHAPTER 54 — CONFIRMATION

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They left before dawn, a small team of four Sera Marcus and two of the compound's most reliable watch members moving through empty streets still cloaked in the last gray shadows of night.

The industrial district loomed ahead exactly where Odalys had described it: rows of warehouses and processing plants long since abandoned, rust already claiming the metal siding of every structure except one.

The facility stood apart from the moment they spotted it.

Where everything around it had decayed into
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