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The underworld answers

Author: Renaye H
last update Last Updated: 2025-11-18 11:18:49

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Chapter 13 — The Underworld Answers

The ground shook before I even saw it.

Not like an earthquake. Not like the city settling. Something alive trembled beneath the asphalt, deep, primal, vibrating through my bones. My mark pulsed against my ribs, thrumming in time with the tremor.

I didn’t need to see it to know: the underworld was coming.

I was standing in the alley, practicing control again, smoke curling from my fingertips like restless serpents. My mark had grown darker since my first real fight, veins of black twisting along my skin like rivers of shadow. I had learned to wield it—almost. But tonight… something bigger was coming. Something hungry.

Malik was at my side instantly, appearing from the shadows like a tether I couldn’t see but always felt. His hand slid to my shoulder, grounding me. “They know,” he said. Voice low, calm, but beneath it a tremor I recognized. Fear. Respect. Excitement.

“Know what?” I asked, though my chest was already racing.

“That you’re… more than a
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