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Chapter Eighteen: A Choice That Draws Blood

Penulis: Jez Stories
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-03-03 16:06:43
The mountain did not sleep.

Even after the council chamber emptied, Aira could feel it around her, stone shifting under guarded footsteps, torches burning low in the halls, unseen eyes tracking her every movement as she was escorted back to the eastern wing. She said nothing on the walk. She kept her face still, her hands folded over her stomach, because she had already learned that fear fed this place and she refused to feed it more than she had to. The guards stopped before a reinforced door
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