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Chapter 85 – The Garden That Should Not Grow

Author: Tiffanie Campbell
last update publish date: 2026-02-25 00:07:02

Elira

The fruit was sweeter today.

I sat beneath the wide-limbed tree I’d coaxed from barren stone, juice staining my fingertips as I watched the branches sway in air that should not exist this deep below the world.

Nothing should grow here.

And yet it did.

Because I willed it to.

The soil had once been ash and bone. I had pressed my palms into it and whispered life into the rot. Now vines curled along obsidian walls, heavy with grapes. Fig trees leaned toward the cavern ceiling. Small white fl
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