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Chapter 145: The Last Threshold
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2026-03-17 00:15:36The fissure waited like an open mouth, a jagged throat of silver-gray shadow, and all I could feel was the chain's steady pulse telling me we were walking into the belly of the thing that wanted my son.
The air in the sanctuary didn't warm up when the Mother's projection vanished. It stayed dead. It felt like a pressurized vacuum of silver-mercury stink and old bone dust, clogging my nose until I had to gag, the soot of the war we'd barely survived sticking to my tongue like a film of
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