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Chapter 67 : The Trap

Author: L.M.Daveth
last update publish date: 2026-03-05 03:38:03

Darion's POV

The plan was simple. Simple plans were the ones that worked.

That was what Silas said, anyway. Standing over a rough map he had sketched on the back of a torn piece of canvas, pointing at the eastern ridge with two fingers like a man who had run operations like this before. Calm and precise and completely certain in a way that I should have questioned more than I did.

I told myself I was thinking clearly.

I was not thinking clearly. I was thinking like a man who had spent four nigh
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