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Chapter Fourty Two: Ashes Of The Dawn..

Author: Jane Orwell
last update Last Updated: 2025-10-12 05:35:11

The first thing Cole felt was the cold.

Not the kind that lingered on the skin, but the kind that crawled into the bone — quiet, ancient, merciless. The forest had gone utterly still around him. Even the air refused to move.

He opened his eyes slowly, fighting the weight of exhaustion pressing down on his chest. Above him, the canopy of the cursed forest loomed, painted silver by an uncertain dawn. Ash drifted in the air like dying snowflakes. For a heartbeat, Cole thought it was still night — until he realized the light wasn’t sunlight.

It was her light.

The glow that had surrounded Lila in the final moments before everything went black still shimmered faintly in the distance, like an echo that refused to die.

“Lila…” His voice broke on her name.

He forced himself upright, his ribs screaming in protest. The mark on his chest — the dark veins that had been spreading since the illness began — now pulsed with a dim, golden hue instead of black. It felt like fire under his skin. Whatever
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