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Chapter 105
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2026-08-21 08:00:40The Bleeding Vault
POV: General Vesh (Elara Vance)
Caius wasn't in his quarters.
We kicked the doors open and found the room gutted — silk torn off the walls, desks overturned, drawers dumped out on the floor. Not a packing job. A man clawing his way out of somewhere he'd already decided was a trap.
"He's gone," Torin said, pacing, furious. "My men swore nobody used this corridor."
"He didn't need the corridor." I was already on my kne
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