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Chapter 114: The Bridge of Ice

مؤلف: Nova Quinn
last update تاريخ النشر: 2026-11-07 04:19:12

The bridge screamed.

Ice does not scream. I had spent years around it, in the North and in cold labs and on the long frozen nights of the Frontier, and I knew it groaned, cracked, sang in the wind. But this was a scream. The whole crystal road shuddered under my boots as the flagship's prow drove into it, and a shriek of fracturing blue light rolled down the span toward the lake.

"Run!" Kaelith roared from below.

I ran.

The bridge was a ribbon of pale fire arcing up through the broken ceiling,
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