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CHAPTER 71 – Storm Before the Temple

Author: Mercy V.
last update publish date: 2026-04-03 13:41:38

The days after the breach and the breaking of the bond felt strangely muffled.

Not quiet.

The pass still thrummed with life: hammer blows as palisades were repaired; the murmur of healers tending wounds; the occasional sharp call of a sentry spotting movement on a distant ridge.

But the roar of immediate battle had faded.

In its place—waiting.

Scouts came and went in a steady trickle, boots caked with ice and mud, faces wind‑burned.

“The royals have pulled back,” one Ashridge scout reported at
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