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71: The First Refugees

Auteur: Solange Daye
last update Date de publication: 2026-03-09 00:04:20

Fern

The horns at Blackmoor’s gate sound different from the war horns. They are shorter this time. Like they are uncertain. It isn’t an alarm, but it isn’t welcome either. It is somewhere in between.

I look up from the reports scattered across the Luna office desk. Mara is halfway through telling me about supply shortages when the horn sounds again.

Three short blasts, then silence.

“That’s not a patrol return,” Mara says quietly.

“No,” I agree.

Something twists in my stomach, and I rise i
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