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Chapter 23

Author: promluchi
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The water sat completely still. It was not quiet. It was never quiet. But still, like glass pulled tight over some kind of heartbeat.

Selene pushed ahead. The surface bent under her hands. The river turned into a hallway now. Its walls looked see-through. They pulsed with a faint light. That light was not really light. It was more like the beat of her own blood.

The air carried a smell of iron and damp stone. Every noise she made echoed back all wrong. A footstep turned into a soft whisper. Her breath came out as a sigh. But that sigh did not feel like hers at all.

Keep moving. She told herself that. But the voice sounded like it came from behind her.

She turned around. Aurek was there. Or some version of him anyway. The silver in his eyes seemed bruised. It looked darker than she remembered. His mouth formed her name. She reached out for him. He broke apart into ripples. The hallway pulled itself back together. It got narrower this time. The walls throbbed like veins squeezing shut a
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