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Chapter 268 — The Exchange Line
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2026-09-19 03:13:25Lorelai met Caelan at the field table with two facts: two custodians were missing, and Aria’s copied route pointed into the occupied line.
“People first,” Lorelai said. “Aria only if taking her costs no one else.”
Caelan nodded. Once, he would have heard a challenge in the limit. Now he heard the thing he had failed to learn soon enough: the rescue mattered even if Lorelai never looked at him differently for it.
He went with the small coaliti
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