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Chapter 17: Interference

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The bond didn’t snap.

That was the cruel part.

It thinned—like a voice heard through water. Present, distorted, unreachable.

Iria stood in the center of her quarters, palm pressed to her chest, breathing carefully. Panic would make it worse. Panic always did.

This wasn’t absence.

This was interference.

“They didn’t sever it,” she murmured. “They muted it.”

The realization settled cold and precise.

Someone had prepared for this.

Across the territory, Kael felt the change like static under his sk
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