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CHAPTER 182: THE GATE

Author: Frank Cannon
last update publish date: 2026-06-07 01:28:53

I asked Dante directly before I left the kitchen.

Not as accusation. As the honest question the situation required.

"You let her through the gate," I said. "Without consulting me."

He looked at me.

"Yes," he said.

"Tell me why," I said.

"She arrived at the gate two hours before you returned," he said. "She had been traveling. She was standing in the cold with the specific quality of someone who had made a decision to come and had come and was now at the moment where that decision either produce
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