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Chapter 146: The Heart of Gray

Penulis: R.J. Sterling
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-03-17 00:15:59

The fissure swallowed us whole, and the chain's co-living pulse was the only thing standing between my son and the gray.

It wasn't a descent into stone; it was a slide down a throat made of bruised quartz and clinical erasure. The air here didn't just chill; it died, turning into a stagnant soup of silver-gray mist that tasted of old bone dust. I gagged, my nose clogged with the ash of the war we'd barely survived on the surface, every breath a jagged laceration against lungs that felt

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