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Chapter 16: After the Storm

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The battlefield fell silent.

Not completely.

But enough to feel the shift.

The clash had ended—not in victory, not in defeat—but in something far more dangerous.

A pause.

A warning.

Kael’s forces had retreated.

Not because they lost.

But because something had changed.

Lyra.

She stood in the center of it all, her breathing uneven, her body still trembling from the power that had nearly consumed her. The g
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