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CHAPTER NINE

Author: Elias Salt
last update publish date: 2026-08-09 16:42:12

The Shift

Emery’s POV

One Year Later…

The staff is delightfully cool to the touch as I clutch it in my hands. The balance of it is suitable, I test it by spinning my body and swinging it in a wide arc, relishing the sound it makes as it cuts through the air.

And then, I lunge.

Valerius sidesteps the strike with fluid, well-practiced grace, the tail of his coat, whipping through the air. He parries my blow with his own staff, the heavy wood colliding with a crack that bounds off the high stone
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