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CHAPTER 24 – Smarter, Faster, Stronger

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Elira

My clothes were finally dry.

The fabric felt stiff and crinkled when I picked them up from the chair where I’d left them the night before—like old parchment, barely softened by the fire. I dropped the blanket from my shoulders and started pulling on my underwear, silently thanking the gods that the hearth still burned warm. The last thing I needed was to be naked in a frozen shack again.

I was halfway into my pants, bent over and grumbling to myself, when the door creaked open.

I froze. So
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