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Chapter 234 Don’t Let Him
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2026-05-14 05:10:29The clearing was perfectly circular. Light filled it with no visible source, thick and slow, brushing against my skin like warm breath.
Alaric sat in the center with his back to us, cross-legged on the pale ground. He looked so small. Narrow shoulders, the same little-boy shape I had memorized over seven years. My heart squeezed tight.
I kept walking. Kael stayed close behind me.
Alaric turned around.
His eyes were pure silver—no white, no pupil, just glowing
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The signal came back at 4:47 in the morning.I knew the exact time because I was already awake, sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of tea that had gone cold somewhere between the second and third hour of not sleeping. The window above the sink faces east. I wasn't watching it deliberately. I was looking at the grain of the wood on the tabletop, following one dark line where the tree had curved around something in its growth. Then the light caught the edge of my vision, and I looked up without meaning to.Silver. Clean and brief, just above the treeline.Gone before I could be certain I'd seen it.I put the cup down carefully.You saw it, my wolf said. She is not excitable. When she says something directly like that, without qualification, I have learned to trust it.I sat still for another moment, then I got up, rinsed the cup, and went to find Aldric.He was already in his workspace.This did not surprise me the way it on
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There was nothing. He offered two possible explanations: that Vael, having lost the vehicle he'd spent years developing, had retreated to assess and plan, or that the work's disruption of his presence in the Realm had cost him more than we'd realized, and he was recovering.“Which do you think it is?” I asked.“The second,” Aldric said. “He is old, but the work was thorough. What we did there was not small.”“But he's not gone.”“No, he is not gone.” He met my eyes. “There will be more. That threat exists, and it has not been resolved. But the immediate vector through Alaric is closed, and Alaric himself is no longer vulnerable in the way Vael needed him to be.”“So we have time.”“We have time. And we should use it
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