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Chapter 93: Beneath the Island
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2026-03-30 08:53:51The earth didn’t open like a wound.
It parted.
Stone slid aside with deliberate slowness, revealing a descending throat of darkness where the forest floor had been moments before. No heat poured out. No smoke. Just a breath of cold air so old it tasted like iron and rain long fallen.
Kiera felt it before she saw it—the draw. Not a pull that dragged at her body, but a gravity that reached for the center of her mind
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