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2026-09-15 07:00:20CHAPTER 112: CLOSER TO HOME
MIRA'S P.O.VThe call comes at four in the morning, and I know before I even answer that whatever's happened is going to be worse than anything we've faced since this crisis began, decades of leadership having taught me exactly what that particular urgency in a phone's first ring actually means."It's close," Isolde says, and I hear her trying to keep her voice steady despite obvious panic underneath. "Three hours from Darklorevie. A trading
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