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Chapter 59: Going In

Author: Manie write
last update publish date: 2026-06-28 19:56:54

Sera's Pov

The facility looked different up close.

On the ridge it had been a collection of lit shapes in the dark, geometric and distant, something you could study and plan around. Up close, in the shadow of the east wall, it was something else. Cold stone. The kind of walls built to last because the things inside them were meant to be kept for a long time. The smell of something chemical came under the night air, faint but consistent, the antiseptic undertone of a place that was regularly cle
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