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Chapter Seven: Terms of Protection

Autor: Jez Stories
last update Fecha de publicación: 2026-02-17 21:53:51
Aira did not move.

The forest around her had gone still in a way that felt unnatural, as if the dark itself had paused to listen to the man standing before her. Snow drifted in thin, slow flakes between the branches, but even that seemed hesitant now, falling around him and not quite daring to touch him. He had not raised his voice. He had not stepped closer. He only stood there with the calm of someone used to being obeyed, and that calm was somehow more frightening than any threat. Aira’s fin
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