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Chapter 97 The Fracture

Author: Aurora Lee
last update publish date: 2026-03-10 09:27:33

Malrec

The seam has begun to sing again.

I knew it the moment the first tremor passed through the stone beneath my feet.

Dragons feel such things differently than lesser creatures. Magic that moves between realms does not simply ripple through the air—it vibrates through bone, through scale, through the ancient instincts written into our blood long before either realm learned the word civilization.

And this morning, the vibration is wrong.

Not weaker.

Stronger.

Which means she has begun to unde
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