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Chapter 77

Author: Marva
last update publish date: 2026-06-23 16:22:29

Dead On Our Feet

​POV: General Vesh (Elara Vance)

​We left the Keep just as dawn broke. Though, calling it dawn felt like a joke. The sun didn't really rise; the sky just turned the color of a bruised kidney, bleeding a sickly, heavy purple light over the snow.

​There were no war horns. Nobody stood on a rock to give a grand, heroic speech about glory or honor. We were past all that bullshit. You don't give speeches to dead men walking. You just point them at the enemy and hope they do enough d
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