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TWENTY-TWO DAYS

Author: Rahmore
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Twenty-Two Days

We left the tunnel the same way we'd come in, single file, and I didn't fully breathe easy again until the sunlight hit my face outside the sanctuary walls, the weight of the chamber's silence still clinging to me like something I hadn't managed to shake off entirely.

"We need to tell the council," Victor said, once we'd gathered our horses and put some distance between ourselves and the sanctuary. "The full council. Not just the ones who voted in our favor at the hearing. If Sh
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