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CHAPTER 7: WHAT CAME THROUGH THE TREES

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last update Fecha de publicación: 2026-03-24 21:10:38

Sera's POV

I moved away from the window.

Not because I was told to. Because the cold in my wrist was pointing at it like a finger and every instinct I had woken up at the same time and agreed that standing in front of glass with something moving toward the house in the dark was not where I wanted to be.

Dassa was already across the room pulling a narrow wooden chest out from under a shelf of books. She opened it without looking at me and took out two things. A small glass bottle filled with som
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