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Chapter 118 — What Remains

مؤلف: B.S. Turaki
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Lyra’s POV

The voice didn’t echo. It settled. Not through the chamber, but through me, threading itself into the connection beneath my skin until the words felt less heard and more remembered.

Bring her to me.

The shadows pulsing across the fractured chamber responded immediately, their movements slowing into something almost reverent as silence swallowed the ruins around us. No one moved. No one breathed. Even the containment guards looked frozen now, their fear overriding training as they sta
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