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Chapter #29 - Fault Lines and Fire

Author: Rayne Sharp
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Vaelora did not sleep after the fire.

By dawn, the eastern quarter was sealed behind layered wards, council sigils burning cold blue against soot-dark stone. Word moved faster than any official decree, and whispers threading through markets and rooftops, through bonded minds and fragment channels alike. A bonded pair nearly torn apart. Council authority seals. A correction that should not exist.

Convergence had stepped out of theory and into blood.

I stood at the map table in Raelthorn’s strategy hall, the city rendered in luminous lines and pulsing nodes. The hollow kept translating what my eyes could not, and stress points glowing amber, fragment surges flaring red where containment had been forced too hard, too fast.

“They’re testing response times,” Aren said, grim. “And public tolerance.”

“Both,” Layla agreed. “Fear spreads faster than truth.”

Thane leaned against the stone pillar at my side, arms crossed, heat restrained but unmistakable. Since the correction, the bond between u
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