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Chapter 101

作者: Sunkissed
last update 公開日: 2026-11-09 22:22:40

Elira's POV

I'd imagined a city.

I hadn't imagined this.

We came over the last ridge on the fifth afternoon, with the sun low and gold at our backs, and the carriage rounded a bend, and Kael said quietly, "There."

I leaned toward the window.

It lay in a wide green valley, spread along a silver bend of river like something spilled from a jeweler's tray. White stone, thousands of roofs, every one of them catching the light. Towers rose in tiers from the center, narrow and tall, banded with g
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