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Chapter 87: The Last Three Days

Author: Anala
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Three days. That was all the time we had.

Seventy-two hours to prepare for a battle we had no guarantee of winning. Seventy-two hours to plan, to gather what little strength we had left, to walk into a trap knowing it was a trap and still come out alive.

The weight of it pressed down on me like a vice, but I didn’t let myself break. I couldn’t. Not when there was still a small chance that my mother was out there. That she had been suffering, waiting, all this time.

We didn’t have the luxury of failure.

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Day One: The Plan

I stood in the war room, surrounded by the people I trusted most. Bastian, arms crossed, face unreadable. Soraya, pacing, her magic flickering at her fingertips. Jameson, flipping a knife between his fingers, his usual smirk missing. Lilith, lounging near the window, was amused but dangerous. And Maxwell—always at my side, his golden eyes sharp with unspoken thoughts.

The map of the Council’s strongholds lay spread across the table, marked with every piece of infor
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