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Chapter 40 : Reunion in Fire

作者: L.M.Daveth
last update 公開日: 2026-02-20 02:19:08

Lena's POV

The Crib was dying around me.

I could feel it the way you feel a cut, that bright specific pain of something that should be whole coming apart. The walls that had held for decades, that had absorbed centuries of careful magic, were cracking. Not from force. From depletion. Tormund was not breaking my sanctuary. He was emptying it.

And I was almost empty too.

I stood in the center of the main room with my hands raised and my eyes burning gold and every drop of power I had left poured
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