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The Rotten Sluice

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last update Data de publicação: 2026-06-25 21:22:59

Chapter 117: The Rotten Sluice

The Oakhaven river did not flow with the clean, icy rush of the high fjords; it wallowed through its stone channel like a dying beast, thick with the gray silt of the lowland flats and the chemical bile of the mountain runoff.

Natalia lay flat on her stomach within a thick stand of frozen river reeds, her borrowed imperial cloak pulled over her head to mimic the gray-brown mud of the riverbank. Through the jagged stalks of the grass, her amber eyes were locked on
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