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CHAPTER 48

Author: DiamondE
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2025-07-22 08:26:01

Where Silence Begins to Speak

The forest beyond the northern wall had not been touched in a generation.

Most called it cursed. Some said it breathed at night. A few believed it was where the dead went when they were forgotten too quickly.

Elise didn’t care what it was called.

She crossed into it before sunrise, her boots damp with frost, her fingers still cold from a sleep that hadn’t come. No map, no compass. Just the pull.

It wasn’t a voice. Not a vision. Just that now-familiar thrum deep in
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