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Chapter 43

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Kael

Lucian had left at dawn; Rowan went out to set patrols. The war room felt too big without them, the maps spread like wounded things across the table. I should have been poring over routes, lining traps, naming blood for blood — instead I had the witch’s words replaying in a loop: bound… empty, and yet not.

She had stayed in the stronghold, as she’d promised. I should have expected her to return with more than riddles.

She appeared then — quiet as a shadow, robes darker than the hearthlight. She carried a small leather bag and an expression that made the air draw tight in my lungs.

“You have news,” I said. No pretense. No patience.

She set the bag on the table and, with a moved-finger hint of ceremony, opened it. A smell rose — oil and ash and something green, bitter, like mountain herbs burned to a crisp. It was a scent I’d smelled once on the wind from Garrick’s camp, vague but poisonous.

“It is old work,” she said. “Not the charm to make a man bend. Not the honeyed spells of co
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