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CHAPTER SIXTY-FOUR — HOW THE KEEP HAD CHANGED

作者: Jessechi
last update 公開日: 2026-06-29 20:38:34
NYRA

The six letters went out the morning after we wrote them.

I had reviewed Orion's three and he had reviewed mine and we had made adjustments and sent them through the clean channel before the garrison's first morning rotation. By the time I was sitting at the war room table with the new student from the Vane household, the letters were already on the road.

Her name was Senna. She was sixteen and careful and she had arrived with better foundational knowledge than Aldric had, which was e
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